Conditional formatting highlights key information in a spreadsheet so it’s easy to see at a glance. This beginner’s guide gets you started. Spreadsheets usually hold a wealth of information, but it ...

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. For example, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Excel holiday information Last year, I showed you a dynamic approach to using conditional formatting to highlight weekends in a ...

The article, How to highlight unique values in Excel, shows two easy ways to apply conditional formatting to unique values or the row that contains a unique value. In this article, we’ll do the same ...

Formatting every other row is easily accomplished using conditional formatting. Fortunately, conditional formatting can handle something more specific, formatting every even or odd row. Many users ...

When you’re parsing through large amounts of data in a Google Sheets spreadsheet, conditional formatting can help you find those bits of information that you want. Conditional formatting helps to ...

Checkboxes in Microsoft Excel are a great tool for tracking progress, improving data organization, and adding an extra layer of automation to your spreadsheet. What's more, you can format a whole row ...

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 ...