Regardless of whether your Excel spreadsheet contains a little or a lot of data, you may want to have cells that meet certain criteria stand out. Excel lets you set some conditional formatting rules ...

The Today() function represents the current date in Microsoft Excel. If you type the =Today() function in any cell and press Enter, Excel will show you the current date. Therefore, this method is used ...

Working with large datasets in Excel can be daunting, especially when you need to identify critical trends or outliers. Have you ever stared at a massive Excel spreadsheet, feeling like you’re ...

When reading across a wide list of data, such as an account ledger or product description list, it is easy to confuse the rows. This is especially true when scrolling across the screen. To minimize ...

Microsoft Excel’s RANK.EQ() function ranks a set of values, but in a busy sheet, the top-ranking items might get lost. You can combine RANK.EQ() with a conditional formatting rule to highlight the top ...

PivotTable-aware conditional formatting ties rules to fields, so visuals persist even when you refresh, filter, or change ...

Office expert Susan Harkins teaches you two ways to highlight the lowest and highest values in an Excel row or column. Finding the lowest or highest value in an Excel row or column is simple using the ...