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.

Open an Excel workbook and select Conditional Formatting > New Rule. Select Format only cells that contain . Select Cell ...

In fact, you can customize all of the Conditional Formatting features using self-defined rules that are easy to create through Excel’s simple “walk-through” menus. We’ll cover that next.

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 ...

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 ...

3] How to create a custom-made formatting rule with dates. In the above example, we navigated the steps for creating a New Rule for Conditional Formatting based on already provided criteria.Excel ...

Conditional formatting can quickly identify differences between two lists–from column to column–using an expression in the form: =COUNTIF( otherlist , firstcellinselectedlist ) = 0 Now, let ...

Excel gives you complete control over the conditional formatting in your workbook, allowing you to customize the criteria, style and color. Open the Excel workbook and select the desired tab at ...

For Excel 2010, right-click on the cell that contains the conditional formatting to move to other cells. Click Copy from the pop-up menu. Even if numerous cells contain the formatting, you only ...

Excel's conditional formatting lets you customize how your data displays, from changing colors and shading to adding icons and more. Here's how it works.

In that article, "Use Excel's conditional formatting to highlight weekends," we created the sheet shown in Figure A. By separating the year, month, and day, you can reuse the same sheet.