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Apply optional presentation conventions when the user requests Excel report formatting or a…
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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,
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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,
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excel-cli-report-formatting.SKILL.mdname: 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](references/report-formatting.md) 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](https://excelmcpserver.dev/reference/); it is not another required skill.
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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](references/report-formatting.md) 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](https://excelmcpserver.dev/reference/); it is not another required skill.
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