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 ...

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 ...

How to avoid a conditional formatting rule in Excel that doesn’t work as expected Your email has been sent Microsoft Excel’s conditional formatting is a flexible tool that applies formatting on the ...

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 ...

Are you tired of manually updating and reviewing your Excel spreadsheets? When you deal with hundreds of rows and columns in ...

Have you ever spent hours perfecting your Excel spreadsheet, only to watch your carefully crafted formatting fall apart the moment you insert a new row? It’s a maddeningly common issue for Excel users ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

I feel like I'm on the cusp of figuring something out, but I'm not quite there. Got a spreadsheet with drop-down for eleven options. Two categories should be red, two green, and seven yellow. I can do ...