If you need a visual clue to hype a worksheet, use Excel’s Conditional Formatting feature to help values stand out. If you maintain inventory in an Excel worksheet, you probably need to know when ...

Excel's preset highlights work for simple cases, but they quickly break down as your data gets more complex. Formula-based conditional formatting turns static spreadsheets into automated alert systems ...

This week's tutorial covers a number functions in Google's Spreadsheet app, Google Sheets. Here we take a practical look at using weekdays in calculations, introduce "if" statements and learn how to ...

Conditional Formatting in Excel can be considered a valuable utility that can help visually enhance the data analysis and presentation in the spreadsheet by applying particular formatting based on pre ...

Many beginner spreadsheets suffer from the same problem: they're difficult to read. The good news is, you don't have to spend hours tweaking fonts and borders to fix them. Excel's conditional ...

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 ...

For you advanced users who want to skip ahead: You apply the conditional formatting using a custom formula and some variation on the INDIRECT function. In addition to specifying the column and row, ...

Whether you’re tracking sales, managing budgets, or analyzing trends, the challenge of pulling out meaningful insights from an Excel spreadsheet can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. But ...

Conditional formatting is used when you want to apply styles to a large number of cells using data within cells to determine how a cell is formatted. Maybe you want to draw attention to dates that are ...