Excel: Change the font color in a cell in Excel 2003/XP/2000/97

Also learn how to change the font color in a cell in Excel 2007.

Question:  How do I change the color of a font in a cell in Excel 2003/XP/2000/97?

Answer:  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.

In the toolbar at the top of the screen, click on the font color button.

Select the color from the popup window.

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