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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Whether you’re tracking sales, managing budgets, or analyzing trends, the challenge of pulling out meaningful insights from an Excel spreadsheet can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. But ...

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 ...

Working with large datasets in Excel can be daunting, especially when you need to identify critical trends or outliers. Have you ever stared at a massive Excel spreadsheet, feeling like you’re ...

Regardless of whether your Excel spreadsheet contains a little or a lot of data, you may want to have cells that meet certain criteria stand out. Excel lets you set some conditional formatting rules ...

Watching cells blend into a dull blur nearly pushed me over the edge. Adding a splash of strategic highlighting changed everything. Conditional formatting makes my numbers pop out just right, and I've ...