Avoid frustration and unintended formatting by learning how Excel applies conditional formatting rules.

How to Make Colors Change With Validation in Excel. Excel's conditional formatting tool applies formatting depending on cells' contents. Validation rules can change cells font, style, size or border.

How to Use If-Then Excel Equations to Color Cells. If-Then rules allow you to create colorful business spreadsheets that do more than look pretty. Meaningful colors can help you and others ...

Learn how to create a Heatmap in Microsoft Excel. Use Color Scales and custom rules to show heatmap in an Excel spreadsheet.