Hi,
When I used to be a pupil and then a student, I always got amazed to see how girls wrote, emphasized, encircled or painted over something in their notebooks with color pencils or markers. In my notebooks there was just one color – blue (black), it was a pen. Not a lot of boys used more colors than i did. And then I began to use Excel. Everything has remained the same way. Sometimes I can use filling especially as CF to attract attention to specific cells. And that is all. No borders, there is a grid. Not like standard tables in Excel nor user defined tables.  Now sometimes I cannot see data in a table, it is like a kaleidoscope.
What do you think about excessive formatting?