Understanding your data and how Excel's conditional formatting works is the key to accurately using icons to represent data.

Excel conditional formatting made easy! Learn formulas, advanced techniques, and troubleshooting tips to enhance your data analysis skills.

Manually combing through spreadsheets with large datasets can be a massive headache at times. Luckily, conditional formatting exists in Microsoft Excel specifically for this reason. This ...

Microsoft Excel’s conditional formatting is a wonderful “automatic” feature that allows you to formats cells based on the value of those cells or the value of the formulas in those cells ...

Learn how to fix Excel conditional formatting issues with dynamic references, OFFSET function, and defined name method for clean spreadsheets ...

Software engineer Chandoo shares some Excel conditional formatting tricks that make for good-looking and useful spreadsheets, like a Gantt chart.

Task Management You can use conditional formatting for task management scenarios in Excel, but the most common application for me is highlighting overdue tasks.

Excel's conditional formatting tool applies formatting depending on cells' contents. Validation rules can change cells font, style, size or border. They can also change the text's color.

If the contents are a number-even if it is formatted as text by Excel-then the formula returns True, and the condition is met for the formatting.