It’s not hard to add an alternating band format to a table by applying a table style. It’s quick and easy, but it’s limited. You’ll get a single-row fill color that alternates with a row of white (or ...

You can use conditional formatting to display simple graphs at the cell level. Susan Sales Harkins explains how. Thanks to conditional formats, graphs can be embedded at the cell level. Well, they’re ...

Have you ever stared at a massive Excel spreadsheet, overwhelmed by rows of numbers, wishing there was a faster way to make sense of it all? Here’s the good news: Excel 365’s conditional formatting ...

Last month, we used conditional formatting to highlight holidays in a matrix-style calendar; we added this enhancement to an earlier article that used conditional formatting to highlight weekends. By ...

Conditional Formatting in Excel can be considered a valuable utility that can help visually enhance the data analysis and presentation in the spreadsheet by applying particular formatting based on pre ...

If-Then rules allow you to create colorful business spreadsheets that do more than look pretty. Meaningful colors can help you and others identify data quickly, recognize trends and even spot ...

Microsoft Excel gives you a boatload of options for changing the format of color charts. You can change the layout of a chart, then customize that layout to the format you prefer. For example, you can ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: I just got a new computer in November, equipped with Windows 10. I purchased and installed Microsoft Office.