Excel visual design tricks

I've emphasized before that the key behind visual design is that every formatting decision you make should have a purpose behind it. In the following post, I plan to demonstrate more of the visual style I use in Excel:

• Dark background and white font.
• Soft gray lines.
• Dotted lines.
• White borders.
• Custom trim.
• Uniform column widths.
• Pastel highlighting.
• Excel data bars instead of color scales.