Explore and use preset rules for conditional formatting Thanks to Microsoft’s preset rules, you don’t necessarily need to create a custom rule from scratch.

B. Format cells that contain specific text You can also use the Conditional Formatting feature to make certain text (letters, word, phrases, etc.) stand out.

Common wisdom says you just can't apply conditional formatting in a Google Apps spreadsheet using data from a different sheet. But here at THE Journal, we laugh in the face of wisdom, common or ...

Thanks to the linked cell property in Microsoft Excel, it's super easy to use the selected value as a condition in a macro or conditional formatting rule.

Thinking Ahead To Save Time One thing about conditional formatting: It can be very time-consuming to replicate a formula over and over for a given cell and replace, one by one, each reference to a ...

Susan Harkins shows you how to visually identify holidays using Excel's conditional formatting feature.

Using RANK.EQ () at the sheet level lets you see both the numerical rank of each value and the conditional formatting that will make the top-three ranking titles easy to find.

Common wisdom says you just can't apply conditional formatting in a Google Apps spreadsheet using data from a different sheet. But here at Campus Technology, we laugh in the face of wisdom, common or ...