How to use conditional formatting in Excel to visually explore, analyze, and identify patterns and trends.

In Excel, from the Home tab, click Conditional Formatting > New Rule. Next, select the “ Use a formula to determine which cells to format ” option, enter your formula and apply the format of …

You can use conditional formatting to highlight cells that contain values which meet a certain condition. Or you can format a whole cell range and vary the exact format as the value of each …

One way to apply shading to alternate rows or columns in your worksheet is by creating a conditional formatting rule. This rule uses a formula to determine whether a row is even or odd …

Testing whether conditions are true or false and making logical comparisons between expressions are common to many tasks. You can use the AND, OR, NOT, and IF functions to create …

To edit the conditional formatting rule, click one of the cells that has the rule applied, go to Home > Conditional Formatting > Manage Rules > Edit Rule, and then make your changes.

Sometimes duplicate data is useful, sometimes it just makes it harder to understand your data. Use conditional formatting to find and highlight duplicate data. That way you can review the …

Select the range of cells, the table, or the whole sheet that you want to apply conditional formatting to. On the Home tab, click Conditional Formatting. Point to Icon Sets, and then click …

Conditional formatting quickly highlights important information in a spreadsheet. But sometimes the built-in formatting rules don’t go quite far enough. Adding your own formula to a conditional …

On the form template, select the control that you want to add conditional formatting to, and then click Conditional Formatting on the Format menu. In the Conditional Formatting dialog box, …