Excel offers several built-in conditional formatting rules you can apply to your data. (Click image to enlarge it.) We’ll demonstrate using Excel for Windows under a Microsoft 365 subscription.

You can effectively spot high-priority tasks in Excel using conditional formatting. There are a few approaches, depending on how you prioritize your tasks in Excel (High, Low, Medium, 1,2,3, or A ...

Excel will then place a dotted line around the selected cell or cells to let you know that something has been copied (in this ...

Instead of showing big digits in a cell, you can format numbers in thousands, millions, and billions in Excel.Many times, you might not need the exact number to show, and instead, you can use K, M ...

Open Excel Online on your computer. Right-click on the date/time cell. Select the Number Format option. Switch to the Date tab. Select a date format you like. Click the OK button. Let’s check ...

Change the time formatting. Data tables that use the "h:m" time format will not export correctly to Excel. Click the column heading to select the entire column.

How to format faster in Excel. Excel has a Format Painter feature that makes it easy to copy the formatting of a cell and “paint” that same formatting on another cell. However, you may not be aware ...

To get started, select the data you want to format in Excel, in this case, that’s C3:F6 and do the following: On the Home tab, click Conditional Formatting (in the Styles group) and choose New Rule.

Formatting using color is such a basic function of Excel that if, after all of the above, you still find that the color options aren’t working, I can only conclude that there must be something ...

The article, Use a custom format in Excel to display easier to read millions uses a custom format to make large values more readable. For instance, 1,200,000 displays as 1.2 M instead—the format ...

Regrettably, Excel doesn’t support regular expressions (regex) out of the box, but fellow columnist Crosby Grant has shared a hack to use Regex via macros in Excel here.