It’s not hard to add an alternating band format to a table by applying a table style. It’s quick and easy, but it’s limited. You’ll get a single-row fill color that alternates with a row of white (or ...

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, ...

How to avoid a conditional formatting rule in Excel that doesn’t work as expected Your email has been sent Microsoft Excel’s conditional formatting is a flexible tool that applies formatting on the ...

Jazz up your Microsoft Excel workbook by creating conditional statements to visually represent trends within your data. The Conditional Format tool allows you to define conditional statements to ...

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 ...

I think Excel gets an unfair reputation for being complicated, but it's not. I've spent enough time in spreadsheets, for both writing and engineering work, to know that a handful of practical tricks ...

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 ...