Regardless of whether your Excel spreadsheet contains a little or a lot of data, you may want to have cells that meet certain criteria stand out. Excel lets you set some conditional formatting rules ...

In this article, we will show you how to find and highlight duplicate cells in Microsoft Excel. When there is limited data in your Excel worksheet, you can easily find the duplicate cells manually.

The interval between the gridlines in an Excel chart is typically blank, but you can highlight the intervals using an alternating pattern by changing the formatting for the gridlines themselves.

If your Excel lists repeats values and you need help finding changes, try this easy conditional format. One of the most frequent requests I receive from readers is how to highlight list values when ...

The article, How to highlight unique values in Excel, shows two easy ways to apply conditional formatting to unique values or the row that contains a unique value. In this article, we’ll do the same ...

How many times have you made a note of a due date only to overlook it? Sure, you could set reminders on your Google or Outlook calendar, but those extra steps aren’t necessary. If you use Excel, there ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Excel holiday information Last year, I showed you a dynamic approach to using conditional formatting to highlight weekends in a ...

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