# Customizing the Overall Component Appearance

Learn how to customize the appearance of the spreadsheet component with skins and save time setting properties individually.

## Content



You can quickly customize the appearance of the spreadsheet component by applying a "skin" to it. A skin is simply a collection of appearance properties that apply to an entire component or to an individual sheet such as colors, grid lines, and whether to show headers. This saves you the time and effort of setting the properties individually. Spread includes several built-in skins that are ready for you to use. You can also create your own custom skin and save it so that you can use it in other Spread components for a common format. These tasks relate to setting the appearance of the overall component:

*   [Setting the Component to the Original Appearance](/spreadnet/docs/latest/online-win/overview/spwin-devguide/spwin-setappearance/spwin-appearcontrol/spwin-olddefaultappear)
*   [Applying a Skin to the Component](/spreadnet/docs/latest/online-win/overview/spwin-devguide/spwin-setappearance/spwin-appearcontrol/spwin-spreadskinapply)
*   [Creating a Custom Skin for a Component](/spreadnet/docs/latest/online-win/overview/spwin-devguide/spwin-setappearance/spwin-appearcontrol/spwin-spreadskincreate)
*   [Applying a Skin to a Sheet](/spreadnet/docs/latest/online-win/overview/spwin-devguide/spwin-setappearance/spwin-appearcontrol/spwin-sheetskinapply)
*   [Creating a Custom Skin for a Sheet](/spreadnet/docs/latest/online-win/overview/spwin-devguide/spwin-setappearance/spwin-appearcontrol/spwin-sheetskincreate)
*   [Saving and Loading a Skin](/spreadnet/docs/latest/online-win/overview/spwin-devguide/spwin-setappearance/spwin-appearcontrol/spwin-sheetskinsaveload)
*   [Creating and Applying a Style for Cells](/spreadnet/docs/latest/online-win/overview/spwin-devguide/spwin-setappearance/spwin-cellstyle)

## See Also

[Customizing the Sheet Appearance](/spreadnet/docs/latest/online-win/overview/spwin-devguide/spwin-setappearance)

[Customizing the Dimensions of the Component](/spreadnet/docs/latest/online-win/overview/spwin-devguide/spwin-setappearance/spwin-appearcontroldims)

[Customizing the Individual Sheet Appearance](/spreadnet/docs/latest/online-win/overview/spwin-devguide/spwin-setappearance/spwin-appearsheet)

[Customizing the Appearance of a Cell](/spreadnet/docs/latest/online-win/overview/spwin-devguide/spwin-setappearance/spwin-appearcell)

[Creating and Applying a Style for Cells](/spreadnet/docs/latest/online-win/overview/spwin-devguide/spwin-setappearance/spwin-cellstyle)

[Using Conditional Formatting of Cells](/spreadnet/docs/latest/online-win/overview/spwin-devguide/spwin-setappearance/spwin-interact-condition)

[Customizing the Display of the Pointer](/spreadnet/docs/latest/online-win/overview/spwin-devguide/spwin-setappearance/spwin-cntrlcursor)

[Customizing the User Interface Images](/spreadnet/docs/latest/online-win/overview/spwin-devguide/spwin-setappearance/spwin-userimages)

[Using XP Themes with the Component](/spreadnet/docs/latest/online-win/overview/spwin-devguide/spwin-setappearance/spwin-appearxptheme)

[Customizing the Renderers](/spreadnet/docs/latest/online-win/overview/spwin-devguide/spwin-setappearance/spwin-rendcustom)

[Handling Right-to-Left Layouts](/spreadnet/docs/latest/online-win/overview/spwin-devguide/spwin-setappearance/spwin-rtlsupport)

[Customizing Painting of Parts of the Component](/spreadnet/docs/latest/online-win/overview/spwin-devguide/spwin-setappearance/spwin-appear-painting)

[Text Rendering with GDI](/spreadnet/docs/latest/online-win/overview/spwin-devguide/spwin-setappearance/spwin-feattextrender)

[Applying Theme to Customize the Appearance](/spreadnet/docs/latest/online-win/overview/spwin-devguide/spwin-setappearance/spwin-spreadthemeapply)