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MS Excel 2011 for Mac: Change the font color in a cell

This Excel tutorial explains how to change the font color of a cell in Excel 2011 for Mac (with screenshots and step-by-step instructions).

Question: How do I change the color of a font in a cell in Microsoft Excel 2011 for Mac?

Answer: By default when you create a new workbook in Excel 2011 for Mac, all cells will be formatted with a black font. You can change the color of the font within any cell.

To change the font color in a cell, select the text that you wish to change the color of. This can either be the entire cell or only a character in the cell.

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Select the Home tab in the toolbar at the top of the screen and click on the Font Color button.

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Select the color from the popup window.

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In this example, we've chosen to change the font color to red.