Excel conditional formatting made easy! Learn formulas, advanced techniques, and troubleshooting tips to enhance your data analysis skills.

Select cells in the Status column. Head to Home -> Conditional formatting. Expand Highlight Cells Rules -> Text that contains. Type Completed and change the formatting style.

Excel Conditional Formatting already lets you format cells based on the value of those cells or the value of the formulas in those cells (see our conditional formatting tutorial for more details ...

Learn how to identify formula cells the easy way using VBA, and then combine VBA and conditional formatting for more permanent identification.

Select cell B2 and choose Conditional Formatting from the Format menu. When applying this to your own worksheet, select the first value in the column (not the column’s label text).

We've covered a lot about using custom formulas for conditional formatting in Google Sheets, especially color-coding cells based on the date. Now let's look at how to color-code cells based on whether ...

Thinking Ahead To Save Time One thing about conditional formatting: It can be very time-consuming to replicate a formula over and over for a given cell and replace, one by one, each reference to a ...

In general, formulas in Google Sheets will contextually update themselves when you copy from one cell and paste to another. But that doesn't happen with formulas used in conditional formatting. So in ...

You can set up conditional formatting in Excel for dates. We have included detailed examples you can try while reading the guide.

Common wisdom says you just can't apply conditional formatting in a Google Apps spreadsheet using data from a different sheet. But here at THE Journal, we laugh in the face of wisdom, common or ...