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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Anyone who knows me knows I’m not a fan of tabular data (data in tables). If you want your data to be persuasive, it needs to be visual. However, when you’re dealing with large data sets that’s not ...

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 ...

Google Sheets, the spreadsheet tool that's part of the Google Apps productivity suite, lets users format cells based on certain conditions, including the date contained in a cell and how far away that ...

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 ...

How to add visual insight to data by applying conditional formatting to a table or matrix visualization in Microsoft Power BI Your email has been sent Designers often use table and matrix ...

Last year, I showed you a dynamic approach to using conditional formatting to highlight weekends in a monthly matrix-style calendar. In that article, "Use Excel's conditional formatting to highlight ...