Stop painting cells and use conditional formatting to build accessible, formula-ready, and automated Excel spreadsheets.

As you probably most already know Excel is a powerful tool for data analysis and presentation. To make your spreadsheets stand out, mastering advanced formatting techniques is essential. This guide ...

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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. For example, ...

Dynamically visualize your data.

With Microsoft Excel, you can simplify data entry by adding a drop-down list to a cell, allowing users to pick an option from the list instead of entering data. You can further tailor the spreadsheet ...

If you want to apply color in alternate rows and columns in an Excel spreadsheet, here is what you need to do. It is possible to display the desired color in every other row or column using ...

Have you ever stared at a massive spreadsheet, feeling overwhelmed by rows and columns of data that all seem to blur together? You’re not alone. Whether you’re tracking project deadlines, analyzing ...

In this post, we will show you how to change the Gridline color in Excel. Gridlines are the lightly visible lines that appear around cells in a worksheet to differentiate them and make the data easier ...