Conditional formatting is powerful, but you can avoid frustration by learning how and when Excel evaluates rules. The interface isn’t particularly intuitive, but it does allow you to edit rules ...

With the use of Excel’s conditional formatting, you can set the rules once and let Excel do the highlighting for you.

We’ll use a conditional formatting rule to highlight values equal to or less than 21. To get started, select the data you want to format in Excel, in this case, that’s C3:F6 and do the following: ...

Conditional formatting is a feature in Excel 365 that automatically applies visual changes —such as colors, borders, or font styles—to cells that meet specific conditions.

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.

Manually combing through spreadsheets with large datasets can be a massive headache at times. Luckily, conditional formatting exists in Microsoft Excel specifically for this reason.

The Conditional Format tool allows you to define conditional statements to represent your data in a colorful and meaningful way. Conditional formats add color, shading or icons to data records ...

In that article, " Use Excel's conditional formatting to highlight weekends," we created the sheet shown in Figure A. By separating the year, month, and day, you can reuse the same sheet.

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.

Your spreadsheets don't have to be dry, soul-killing pages of numbers. With Excel 2007's conditional formatting, you can add all sorts of eye-catching visuals to your data.

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 ...