(we have used excel 2003 in this tutorial, but conditional formatting is similar in excel 2007 with lots of additional features) Click on menu > format > conditional formatting or the big conditional formatting button in Excel 2007. First select the cells you want to format conditionally. So How do I Apply Conditional Formatting? Here are 3 examples of conditional formatting. To automatically change formatting when a cell meets certain criteria. That is why we use conditional formatting. Especially if you have large set of values or your values change often. But this a cumbersome and repetitive process. Of course, you can manually change the formats of cells that meet a criteria. you can use conditional formatting to change the font color of all cells with negative values or change background color of cells with duplicate values.
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To celebrate the 1 year of teaching conditional formatting to you all, we have a series of posts, the first of which is “What is excel conditional formatting & How to use it?” What is excel conditional formatting ?Ĭonditional formatting is your way of telling excel to format all the cells that meet a criteria in a certain way. The post has 100 comments and bookmarked on delicious more than 700 times.
Today is the first anniversary of Excel Conditional Formatting post (Don’t worry, I am not going to make anniversary posts for all the 150 odd excel articles here).
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