Conditional Formatting

Conditional formatting can help make patterns and trends in your data more apparent. To use it, you create rules that determine the format of cells based values.

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Excel formula: Highlight 3 smallest values with criteria

Conditional formatting

Highlight 3 smallest values with criteria

Excel formula: Conditional formatting based on another cell

Conditional formatting

Conditional formatting based on another cell

Excel formula: Conditional formatting based on another column

Conditional formatting

Conditional formatting based on another column

Excel formula: Conditional formatting column is blank

Conditional formatting

Conditional formatting column is blank

Excel formula: Conditional formatting date past due

Conditional formatting

Conditional formatting date past due

Excel formula: Conditional formatting dates overlap

Conditional formatting

Conditional formatting dates overlap

Excel formula: Conditional formatting highlight target percentage

Conditional formatting

Conditional formatting highlight target percentage

Excel formula: Conditional formatting last n rows

Conditional formatting

Conditional formatting last n rows

Excel formula: Find duplicate values in two columns

Conditional formatting

Find duplicate values in two columns

Excel formula: Gantt chart

Conditional formatting

Gantt chart

Excel formula: Gantt chart by week

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Gantt chart by week

Excel formula: Gantt chart time schedule

Conditional formatting

Gantt chart time schedule

Excel formula: Gantt chart with weekends

Conditional formatting

Gantt chart with weekends

Excel formula: Highlight approximate match lookup conditional formatting

Conditional formatting

Highlight approximate match lookup conditional formatting

Excel formula: Highlight blank cells

Conditional formatting

Highlight blank cells

Excel formula: Highlight bottom values

Conditional formatting

Highlight bottom values

Excel formula: Highlight cells that begin with

Conditional formatting

Highlight cells that begin with

Excel formula: Highlight cells that contain

Conditional formatting

Highlight cells that contain

Excel formula: Highlight cells that contain one of many

Conditional formatting

Highlight cells that contain one of many

Excel formula: Highlight cells that end with

Conditional formatting

Highlight cells that end with

Excel formula: Highlight cells that equal

Conditional formatting

Highlight cells that equal

Excel formula: Highlight column differences

Conditional formatting

Highlight column differences

Excel formula: Highlight data by quartile

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Highlight data by quartile

Excel formula: Highlight dates between

Conditional formatting

Highlight dates between

Excel formula: Highlight dates greater than

Conditional formatting

Highlight dates greater than

Excel formula: Highlight dates in same month and year

Conditional formatting

Highlight dates in same month and year

Excel formula: Highlight dates in the next N days

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Highlight dates in the next N days

Excel formula: Highlight dates that are weekends

Conditional formatting

Highlight dates that are weekends

Excel formula: Highlight duplicate columns

Conditional formatting

Highlight duplicate columns

Excel formula: Highlight duplicate rows

Conditional formatting

Highlight duplicate rows

Excel formula: Highlight duplicate values

Conditional formatting

Highlight duplicate values

Excel formula: Highlight entire rows

Conditional formatting

Highlight entire rows

Excel formula: Highlight every other row

Conditional formatting

Highlight every other row

Excel formula: Highlight integers only

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Highlight integers only

Excel formula: Highlight many matching values

Conditional formatting

Highlight many matching values

Excel formula: Highlight missing values

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Highlight missing values

Excel formula: Highlight multiples of specific value

Conditional formatting

Highlight multiples of specific value

Excel formula: Highlight numbers that include symbols

Conditional formatting

Highlight numbers that include symbols

Excel formula: Highlight row and column intersection exact match

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Highlight row and column intersection exact match

Excel formula: Highlight rows that contain

Conditional formatting

Highlight rows that contain

Excel formula: Highlight rows with blank cells

Conditional formatting

Highlight rows with blank cells

Excel formula: Highlight rows with dates between

Conditional formatting

Highlight rows with dates between

Excel formula: Highlight specific day of week

Conditional formatting

Highlight specific day of week

Excel formula: Highlight top values

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Highlight top values

Excel formula: Highlight unique values

Conditional formatting

Highlight unique values

Excel formula: Highlight unprotected cells

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Highlight unprotected cells

Excel formula: Highlight values between

Conditional formatting

Highlight values between

Excel formula: Highlight values greater than

Conditional formatting

Highlight values greater than

Excel formula: Highlight values not between X and Y

Conditional formatting

Highlight values not between X and Y

Excel formula: Shade alternating groups of n rows

Conditional formatting

Shade alternating groups of n rows

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