How to Change Border Color in Google Sheets
No, I am not lying. You can change border color in google sheets from the regular black ones. How to do that, when to use it, what help does it do, and all such questions are going to be answered just here. Remember when you learned to change cell color in google spreadsheet. All your cells can be colorful based on the requirement. But you might be feeling it too colorful or kiddy to use that feature. Instead of that, learn to change border color now. Here we go through the steps before delving deep into its usage.
How To Change Cell Border Color in Google Sheet
Change Border Color in Google Sheets: 4 Steps
Step-1 Open Google Sheets: Come on guys, you know it now. You must have the google sheets application to change border color or in fact, do anything related to google sheets.
- It is freely available on the google play store application.
- And you don't even have to worry if you have a play store or not. It is a default application on almost all android devices.
- Search for google sheets, look for the green icon with a little fold on the top, and finally, install it.
Step-2 Combined Cells: You must be aware of how to merge cells in google sheets. Changing border colors is applicable to such combined cells, merged areas in google sheets. It can also work for more than one selected cells.
- If you have such combined cells on your sheet, select that area.
- If not, then you can select more than one cell and go ahead with further steps.
- To clarify, it is not necessary to have merged cells, but more than one selected cell to change border color in google sheets.
Step-3 The 'Grid' Icon: You very well know that selecting any cell in google sheets opens up the formatting toolbars. When more than one cell or a combined cell is selected, certain different options appear in the bottom toolbar.
- At the bottom-right end, in the corner, you see a two by two grid. It looks like a square that divides into four mini squares.
- Click on that. That is the option to add borders.
Step-4 Change the Border Color: There are certain specifications regarding borders here. We will discuss it after we learn to change the border color.
- The third main option in the formatting box is border color.
- By default it is black. It has a small arrow at the end that will take you for a selection of other colors.
- From there, you can choose any color and any shade you desire for your cell borders.
Now, the first option is of appearance of the border. Where and how you want your border to appear. The second option is border style. You can have a dark bold border, broken lines border, dotted border, or even a double-lined border. Each adds depth to your sheet in its way. Now, why use borders and border color? This can be used instead of cell color for more subtle distinction. To highlight certain data and facts, a thicker border with appropriate color makes a visual difference. And that's what our goal should be. Making visibly aesthetic and easy to skim through google sheets.