Software engineer Chandoo shares some Excel conditional formatting tricks that make for good-looking and useful spreadsheets, like a Gantt chart. Conditional formatting makes a cell look a certain ...

Excel helps you to automatically format cells with conditional formatting, create charts with recommendations, insert tables and pivot tables, and get totals.

Employ Conditional Formatting Conditional formatting can make your data easier to interpret at a glance by automatically applying styles based on cell values. For instance: ...

Conditional formatting highlights key information in a spreadsheet so it’s easy to see at a glance. This beginner’s guide gets you started using conditional formatting.

Microsoft Excel’s conditional formatting is a wonderful “automatic” feature that allows you to formats cells based on the value of those cells or the value of the formulas in those cells ...

Avoid frustration and unintended formatting by learning how Excel applies conditional formatting rules.

Conditional Formatting is your Friend If formulas aren’t your thing, here’s an easy way to duplicate data between two columns. Highlight the columns and select Excel’s Conditional Formatting ...

My problem is that I cannot change the text color or add a background color fill in Excel. I am up-to-date according to Microsoft. I also have turned off Conditional Formatting.

Conditional formatting in Excel allows you to format cells based on a set of rules. This will draw attention to the data you want to highlight and make your spreadsheets more user friendly.

Susan Harkins shows you how to visually identify holidays using Excel's conditional formatting feature.