The Today() function represents the current date in Microsoft Excel. If you type the =Today() function in any cell and press Enter, Excel will show you the current date. Therefore, this method is used ...

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 ...

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, ...

Have you ever stared at a massive spreadsheet, overwhelmed by rows and columns of data, wondering how to make sense of it all? Imagine being able to instantly spot trends, outliers, or urgent tasks ...

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 ...

Have you ever stared at a massive spreadsheet, feeling overwhelmed by rows and columns of data that all seem to blur together? You’re not alone. Whether you’re tracking project deadlines, analyzing ...

If you need a legend longer than your data, you’ve gone too far.

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 ...

The article, How to highlight unique values in Excel, shows two easy ways to apply conditional formatting to unique values or the row that contains a unique value. In this article, we’ll do the same ...

Formatting every other row is easily accomplished using conditional formatting. Fortunately, conditional formatting can handle something more specific, formatting every even or odd row. Many users ...