Want to to alternate row colors in Excel? You can apply color in alternate row & column in Excel spreadsheet using Conditional Formatting.

How to use the ROWS function in Microsoft Excel Type into your cell =ROWS (D1:F4). The result is 4, which is the number of rows in the reference. If you type =ROWS ( {1,2,3}) the result would be 1.

A row-by-row formatting rule is as easy to apply as a column-by-column in Microsoft Excel, but you might not get the results you thought you would.