Excel's conditional formatting lets you customize how your data displays, from changing colors and shading to adding icons and more. Here's how it works.

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 ...

Adding color creates a great visual effect, but did you know that you can evaluate values by color? Use this technique to turn color into valuable information.

You can automatically have cells turn certain colors based on the text within those cells. This is easily done using one of the many types of conditional formatting.

In Microsoft Excel, if a cell contains a formula that results in an error, a triangle appears in the top-left corner of the cell. The triangle is an error indicator.

Thanks to the linked cell property in Microsoft Excel, it's super easy to use the selected value as a condition in a macro or conditional formatting rule.