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name: excel-cli-report-formatting description: >- Apply optional presentation conventions when the user requests Excel report formatting or a new reader-facing report through excelcli. Use for readable headers, meaningful number formats, financial-model colours, and report layout. Do not load for ordinary reads, raw exports, targeted data updates, Power Query or Data Model work, or failure recovery without a report-formatting request. compatibility: Windows with desktop Excel and excelcli.

Report formatting with excelcli

Use the user's requested style first, the existing template second, and the optional conventions in the formatting guide only when neither specifies a style. Read that guide for the requested report, not unrelated workbook work.

Discover exact actions and flags with excelcli <command> --help. Preserve values, formulas, units, identifiers, existing layouts, and unrelated sheets. Formatting is not permission to refresh data or rebuild workbook objects. Use Table styles for Tables and the owning chart/PivotTable controls for those objects; plain-cell formatting is not interchangeable with their style systems.

Inspect the affected formats and calculated outputs before saving the authorized result. Financial-model colours and dashboard visuals are optional, not a requirement for every report. Screenshots are optional and need a desktop.

General workflow and recovery documentation is available on the website; it is not another required skill.