With conditional formatting, cells you want to notice, such as "month-on-month change of -20% or less" or "missing input," are automatically colored every time you update the data. This article ...

Have you ever thought, "It would be convenient if items that have passed their deadline automatically turned red" in a task ...

Step-by-step instructions for using Excel’s conditional formatting feature to highlight rows, which is a handy way to compare records or values. If you can only read one tech story a day, this is it.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last month, we used conditional formatting to highlight holidays in a matrix-style calendar; we added this enhancement to an ...

Microsoft Excel 2007's conditional formatting feature allows you to format cells based on certain criteria. As an example, you might want the row color to change based upon a credit or debit on a ...

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, ...

When reading across a wide list of data, such as an account ledger or product description list, it is easy to confuse the rows. This is especially true when scrolling across the screen. To minimize ...