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. Conditional formatting ...

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 ...

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 ...

This illustrated walk-through (with a demo worksheet) shows how easy it is to create a multi-column search solution using validation lists and conditional formatting. Excel offers numerous ways to ...

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 way ...

Microsoft Excel has more dataviz capabilities than you may realize. Find out how to make your data stand out with charts, PivotTables, sparklines, slicers and more. Everyone knows Microsoft Excel as a ...