Many beginner spreadsheets suffer from the same problem: they're difficult to read. The good news is, you don't have to spend hours tweaking fonts and borders to fix them. Excel's conditional ...

Excel Conditional Formatting already lets you format cells based on the value of those cells or the value of the formulas in those cells (see our conditional formatting tutorial for more details). Now ...

You can use conditional formatting to display simple graphs at the cell level. Susan Sales Harkins explains how. Thanks to conditional formats, graphs can be embedded at the cell level. Well, they’re ...

When you think VBA code is your only hope, try combing built-it conditional formatting tools. You might just find an easier solution than writing code. Editor’s Note: This article was originally ...

Data bars are a powerful visual tool you can apply in Excel to help people understand the data you're presenting. Data bars are a form of conditional formatting that changes depending on the data ...