Formulaic conditional formatting rules in Microsoft Excel can be tricky, so learn how to avoid a common mistake.

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.

Last year, I showed you a dynamic approach to using conditional formatting to highlight weekends in a monthly matrix-style calendar. In that article, "Use Excel's conditional formatting to ...

Your spreadsheets don't have to be dry, soul-killing pages of numbers. With Excel 2007's conditional formatting, you can add all sorts of eye-catching visuals to your data. Conditional formatting ...

You might not have noticed some of the useful Excel features like Sparklines, Slicers, Conditional Formatting, and other formulas which add value to your work.