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 ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

One of the most common requests I receive from users is how to identify duplicate and unique values in Microsoft Excel. The easiest way I know is to apply a conditional format. In a nutshell, a ...

Quip, a startup with mobile apps for crafting and collaborating on documents, has turned on some useful capabilities when it comes to working with spreadsheets. Now you can click a couple of buttons ...

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 ...