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

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

Question: How do I change the font size 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 size 12 font. You can change the size of the font within any cell.

To change the font size in a cell, select the text that you wish to change the size 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 select your new size.

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The selected text should now reflect this new font size. In this example, we've chosen to set the font size to 16.

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