If you want to apply color in alternate rows and columns in an Excel spreadsheet, here is what you need to do. It is possible to display the desired color in every other row or column using ...

Alternating row or column colors assists data identification by making the row or column easier to distinguish. In Microsoft Excel, you can achieve this effect using conditional formatting to change ...

How do you set up a worksheet with alternating colored rows like the traditional columnar pad design? There are many ways, but the easiest, for both Excel 2003 and 2007 is with a Conditional ...

Conditional formatting in Excel is often associated with basic tasks like highlighting cells based on their values, but its potential goes far beyond these surface-level features. My Online Training ...

Microsoft Excel 2007's conditional formatting feature allows you to format cells based on certain criteria. As an example, you might want the row color to change based upon a credit or debit on a ...

Whether you’re using Microsoft Excel 2008 ( ; $400 as part of Office 2008) or 2004, you need some tricks up your sleeve for easing day-to-day tasks, such as entering data or custom sorting, as well as ...

Counting records or values in Microsoft Excel is easy. Counting individual cells by their fill color definitely isn’t. Using an old function and a matrix tames the problem. The article How to easily ...

I have a set of spreadsheets where the data (text) is color-coded by row. Would it be feasible to write a formula or script to count how many of what color rows are spread across the workbooks in my ...