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Using HCL Connections Docs 2.0 CR3
Welcome to the HCL Connections Docs 2.0 CR3 documentation, where you can find information about HCL Docs 2.0 CR3. HCL Docs is a collaborative productivity suite that enables you to work on documents, spreadsheets and presentations together in the cloud.
Using HCL Docs
HCL Connections™ Docs is a new office productivity suite for working on documents, spreadsheets and presentations together. It provides real-time co-editing, allowing users to work on documents individually or collaboratively. Comment on a document, or even participate in a discussion. All this without the need of desktop software.
Working with spreadsheets
Calculate, analyze, and manage your data. Several categories of functions are available to create formulas to perform complex calculations on your data.
Changing the look of your spreadsheets
Simple enhancements to the way your spreadsheets look can improve their effectiveness.
Changing colors in spreadsheets
You can change the color of the text, and add background color to cells and ranges.

Using HCL Connections Docs 2.0 CR3
Welcome to the HCL Connections Docs 2.0 CR3 documentation, where you can find information about HCL Docs 2.0 CR3. HCL Docs is a collaborative productivity suite that enables you to work on documents, spreadsheets and presentations together in the cloud.
- Using HCL Docs
  HCL Connections™ Docs is a new office productivity suite for working on documents, spreadsheets and presentations together. It provides real-time co-editing, allowing users to work on documents individually or collaboratively. Comment on a document, or even participate in a discussion. All this without the need of desktop software.
  - Accessibility features for HCL Docs
    Accessibility features assist users who have a disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use information technology content successfully.
  - Supported browsers
    See what Web browsers are supported by HCL Connections™ Docs.
  - What's new in HCL Docs 2.0
    Learn about new features and functions in HCL Docs 2.0.
  - Publishing a version of a file
    In order for readers to see a draft created in HCL Connections Docs, or edits made in Docs, a new version of the file must be published. As of August 2015, if a file is being created or edited in Docs for the first time, publishing is set to occur automatically. If a file was previously created or edited in Docs, you must either enable the Publish Automatically command in that file, or publish each new version manually.
  - What if I have a file conflict?
    A person can decide to upload a new version of a file while another person is editing the file online or has saved an online file that is not yet published. The new uploaded version is stored in Files as its own version number, and you are warned of the conflict the next time you try to edit the file from the Files list.
  - Reverting to last version
    When you are editing in HCL Connections™ Docs, if you are not satisfied with the current version of your document, you can revert to the last version that was published. You can choose to save or discard your current edits before you revert to the last version of a document.
  - Viewing a file by using the viewer
    You can view an uploaded document, spreadsheet, presentation, or PDF file while you are working in Files.
  - Accessibility features for HCL Docs
    Accessibility features assist users who have a disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use information technology content successfully.
  - Working with documents
    Work on a document by yourself or collaborate on files with your colleagues. You can comment on a document, or even participate in a discussion. All this in real-time. Upload an existing Open Document Format or Microsoft™ Word file or create a document to begin.
  - Working with spreadsheets
    Calculate, analyze, and manage your data. Several categories of functions are available to create formulas to perform complex calculations on your data.
    - Creating and importing spreadsheets
      Learn how to create spreadsheets and work with existing spreadsheets in your web browser.
    - File compatibility and exporting spreadsheets
      Find out which file types you can use with HCL Connections™ Docs spreadsheets.
    - Working with spreadsheets in Content Navigator
      If your organization uses IBM Content Navigator as its file repository, see the following topics to learn how to create, import, check in, and save spreadsheet files in the repository.
    - Sharing spreadsheets
      You can make a spreadsheet public for anyone to read, or share it with specific people and communities. You can allow people to edit a spreadsheet and even share it with others. You can also change or delete access levels after you share a spreadsheet.
    - Collaborating on spreadsheets in real time
      You can collaborate on a spreadsheet in real time with others as a team. You can co-edit with other editors in real time, and create comments and discussions.
    - Changing the look of your spreadsheets
      Simple enhancements to the way your spreadsheets look can improve their effectiveness.
      - Changing indents in spreadsheets
        Indents in HCL Connections™ Docs are inherited from imported files and preserved in exported files. You can copy or remove an indent in HCL Docs, but you cannot increase or decrease it.
      - Aligning text in spreadsheet cells
        You can align the text in spreadsheet cells to left, center or right and to top, middle or bottom.
      - Changing fonts in spreadsheets
        You can change the selected text in a spreadsheet to different fonts.
      - Changing colors in spreadsheets
        You can change the color of the text, and add background color to cells and ranges.
      - Changing borders in spreadsheets
        In a spreadsheet, you can add a border around a single cell or range of cells.
      - Changing row height or column width
        Drag a border of the respective header to adjust row height or column width.
      - Showing or hiding grid lines in spreadsheets
        You can choose to show or hide the grid lines in a spreadsheet.
      - Restoring default formatting to spreadsheet cells
        Use the Default Formatting command to undo fonts, borders, backgrounds, and number formats that you previously applied.
      - Copying and applying formatting in spreadsheets
        You can copy formatting from a column, a row, or a cell and apply it to other columns, rows, or cells.
    - Managing sheets in spreadsheets
      You can insert a sheet into a spreadsheet, and then move, rename, hide and show the sheet. For an overview of the basics and for tasks that you might need help with, see the following topics.
    - Formatting numbers
      A number can look different from the actual value entered in a cell, depending on the number format. Number formats differentiate one kind of data from another; for example, currency from percentages. Number formats affect only how HCL Connections™ Docs displays numbers, not how it stores or calculates numbers.
    - Entering and editing data
      Most editing tasks in HCL Connections™ Docs are easy to do on your own. For an overview of the basics and for tasks that you might need help with, see the following topics.
    - Working with images in spreadsheets
      You can insert an image into a spreadsheet, and then resize and move the image.
    - Working with charts in spreadsheets
      You can insert a chart into a spreadsheet, and then resize, move, and delete the chart.
    - Managing data ranges
      Learn how to sort data in a sheet or range and reference data that is on a different sheet.
    - Using formulas in calculations
      This section provides background information on formulas and functions, and organizes the functions in alphabetical order or by category to make it easy to find related functions.
    - Spreadsheets quick reference
      This topic helps you discover or remember how to do certain spreadsheet tasks.
    - Spreadsheets keyboard shortcuts
      You can use shortcut keys to perform tasks in spreadsheets. All shortcuts are valid on Windows™ operating systems. On Mac OS, press Command instead of Ctrl.
  - Working with presentations
    Create high impact, professional presentations. Or, you can upload existing presentations from your computer to HCL Docs Cloud for online editing. You can edit presentations with your colleagues in real-time and collaborate with others through comments and discussions.
  - Glossary
  - Notices

Changing colors in spreadsheets

You can change the color of the text, and add background color to cells and ranges.

Procedure

To change color of the text, select the text and click the Set Font Color icon on the toolbar. Use the drop-down panel to select from various text colors.
To change the background color of cells, click the cell and then click the Set Background Color icon .
Use the drop-down list to select from various background colors.

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