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.

Use Excel's conditional formatting to flag status changes, budget issues, missing data, duplicates, and deadlines ...

In Excel, common causes include using relative references in formulas (so the rule shifts unexpectedly), mismatched data types (e.g., numbers stored as text), or having multiple overlapping ...

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 ...

Conditional formatting highlights key information in a spreadsheet so it’s easy to see at a glance. This beginner’s guide gets you started. Spreadsheets usually hold a wealth of information, but it ...

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 ...

If you want to apply color in alternate rows and columns in an Excel spreadsheet, here is what you need to do. It is possible to display the desired color in every other row or column using ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Excel holiday information Last year, I showed you a dynamic approach to using conditional formatting to highlight weekends in 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, ...

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 ...