You can apply conditional formatting to a range of cells (either a selection or a named range), an Excel table, and in Excel for Windows, even a PivotTable report.

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 that meet a certain condition, or format a whole cell range and vary the exact format as the value of each cell varies.

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

On the Home tab, click Conditional Formatting, and then click New Rule. Select a style, for example, 3-Color Scale, select the conditions that you want, and then click OK.

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 …

Issues that cause a minor loss of fidelity might or might not have to be resolved before you continue saving the workbook—data or functionality is not lost, but the workbook might not …