Microsoft Excel’s conditional formatting is a wonderful “automatic” feature that allows you to formats cells based on the value of those cells or the value of the formulas in those cells. For example, ...

By default, when you select a formula or source field in a dialog box, Enter mode is activated. You can see this in the ...

Whether you’re tracking sales, managing budgets, or analyzing trends, the challenge of pulling out meaningful insights from an Excel spreadsheet can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. But ...

Have you ever spent hours perfecting your Excel spreadsheet, only to watch your carefully crafted formatting fall apart the moment you insert a new row? It’s a maddeningly common issue for Excel users ...

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, ...

Software engineer Chandoo shares some Excel conditional formatting tricks that make for good-looking and useful spreadsheets, like a Gantt chart. Conditional formatting makes a cell look a certain way ...

The data being imported in a particular column can either be text (such as “17 U”) or numeric (such as “32”). The conditional format checks to see if the value in the cell is greater than zero, in ...

Anyone who knows me knows I’m not a fan of tabular data (data in tables). If you want your data to be persuasive, it needs to be visual. However, when you’re dealing with large data sets that’s not ...

A: It wasn’t really clear to me from your question whether the formatting options that you’re trying to use are unavailable to you (grayed-out) or if you are able to activate them but they’re just not ...