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.

When reading across a wide list of data, such as an account ledger or product description list, it is easy to confuse the rows. This is especially true when scrolling across the screen. To minimize ...

PivotTable-aware conditional formatting ties rules to fields, so visuals persist even when you refresh, filter, or change ...

A giant grid of numbers can be mind-numbing. Once I discovered the magic of color-coded rules, spotting shifts and irregularities got a whole lot easier. A vivid spreadsheet quickly calls attention ...

Last month, we used conditional formatting to highlight holidays in a matrix-style calendar; we added this enhancement to an earlier article that used conditional formatting to highlight weekends. By ...