I'm trying to greatly increase the line weight around a box in Excel
2007. If I go to Format/Format Cells/Border I choose the darkest line
for the box, but it is still very light. I want something really
bold, like 1/16" line width.

I looked in the Help and it refers to, under Drawing Tools, on the
Format tab, in the Shape Styles group, click the arrow next to Shape
Outline. I can't find any of these things. This new format for Excel
drives me crazy.

but it is still very light

Funny, looks just as dark to me as in Excel 2003.

I can't find any of these things

If you want to insert a rectangle as a border you should go to the Insert
tab and grab a rectangle by clicking the Shapes button in the Illustrations
group. Once you select the rectangle the Drawing Tools, Format tab becomes
visible. This is what they call a 'contextual tab' - meaning you only see
it when it applies.

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Jim
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I'm trying to greatly increase the line weight around a box in Excel
2007. If I go to Format/Format Cells/Border I choose the darkest line
for the box, but it is still very light. I want something really
bold, like 1/16" line width.

I looked in the Help and it refers to, under Drawing Tools, on the
Format tab, in the Shape Styles group, click the arrow next to Shape
Outline. I can't find any of these things. This new format for Excel
drives me crazy.

Thanks. That worked, but it's a little clumsy when you just want to
darken the outline of a box. What I meant by light was that it was
too thin. I don't ever remember having to go through this to thicken
a line in Excel XP.

Dick

On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:18:09 -0400, "Jim Rech"
wrote:

but it is still very light

Funny, looks just as dark to me as in Excel 2003.

I can't find any of these things

If you want to insert a rectangle as a border you should go to the Insert
tab and grab a rectangle by clicking the Shapes button in the Illustrations
group. Once you select the rectangle the Drawing Tools, Format tab becomes
visible. This is what they call a 'contextual tab' - meaning you only see
it when it applies.