Understanding Excel’s conditional formatting rules can help prevent unintended results Your email has been sent Avoid frustration and unintended formatting by learning how Excel applies conditional ...

Working with large spreadsheets means constantly tracking rows and columns, and it's easy to lose your place when you're staring at hundreds of cells. I've tried different workarounds over the years — ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Google Sheets, as in other spreadsheet programs, you can set the formatting of a cell (text color, background color) based on the data contained within that cell. This is called "conditional ...

How to add a conditional format that highlights groups in Excel Your email has been sent The article, How to use a border to discern groups more easily in Microsoft Excel, shows you how to use a ...

Here's how to build smarter checklists in Excel using checkboxes, conditional formatting and task dependencies to help with multi-step processes. In my previous article in this series, I walked you ...

One way to streamline data entry is to create custom lists in Excel and use them to create drop-down lists in specified cells. When you use the program's Data Validation tool, along with its ...

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 ...