It’s not hard to add an alternating band format to a table by applying a table style. It’s quick and easy, but it’s limited. You’ll get a single-row fill color that alternates with a row of white (or ...

Jazz up your Microsoft Excel workbook by creating conditional statements to visually represent trends within your data. The Conditional Format tool allows you to define conditional statements to ...

One of the most common requests I receive from users is how to identify duplicate and unique values in Microsoft Excel. The easiest way I know is to apply a conditional format. In a nutshell, a ...

We all know that, when you right click on a cell in an Excel worksheet, it is possible to change the format of the cell, from its numeric type, alignment, and text property to its surround and ...

Microsoft Excel 2007's conditional formatting feature allows you to format cells based on certain criteria. As an example, you might want the row color to change based upon a credit or debit on a ...

Last month, we used conditional formatting to highlight holidays in a matrix-style calendar; we added this enhancement to an earlier article that used conditional formatting to highlight weekends. By ...

The data being imported in a particular column can either be text (such as “17 U”) or numeric (such as “32”). The conditional format checks to see if the value in the cell is greater than zero, in ...

An curved arrow pointing right. 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 ...

What is conditional formatting? In Excel, conditional formatting is the ability to apply various effects (such as color, etc.) and post-treatment for a range of cells depending on if each cell has met ...

You've compiled a big, complicated spreadsheet chock full of numbers and you want the important ones to stand out. Give conditional formatting a try - it's a groovy Excel technique that changes cell ...