Excel’s conditional formatting feature lets users highlight cells automatically when they contain specific words or phrases.

With conditional formatting, cells you want to notice, such as "month-on-month change of -20% or less" or "missing input," are automatically colored every time you update the data. This article ...

Step-by-step instructions for using Excel’s conditional formatting feature to highlight rows, which is a handy way to compare records or values. If you can only read one tech story a day, this is it.

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Conditional formatting highlights key information in a spreadsheet so it’s easy to see at a glance. This beginner’s guide gets you started. Spreadsheets usually hold a wealth of information, but it ...

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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 ...

If you want duplicate values to stand out in an Excel spreadsheet, you can choose between two conditional formatting rules. The article, How to highlight unique values in Excel, shows two easy ways to ...

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