Format hierarchical financial data using formula-based conditional formatting rules. Build detailed Excel P&L layouts that ...

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 ...

If you need a visual clue to hype a worksheet, use Excel’s Conditional Formatting feature to help values stand out. If you maintain inventory in an Excel worksheet, you probably need to know when ...

Microsoft Excel’s RANK.EQ() function ranks a set of values, but in a busy sheet, the top-ranking items might get lost. You can combine RANK.EQ() with a conditional formatting rule to highlight the top ...

Excel keeps a display layer and a data layer.

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, ...

Excel Conditional Formatting already lets you format cells based on the value of those cells or the value of the formulas in those cells (see our conditional formatting tutorial for more details). Now ...