Understanding your data and how Excel's conditional formatting works is the key to accurately using icons to represent data.

Microsoft Excel’s conditional formatting is a wonderful “automatic” feature that allows you to formats cells based on the value of those cells or the value of the formulas in those cells ...

Excel conditional formatting made easy! Learn formulas, advanced techniques, and troubleshooting tips to enhance your data analysis skills.

Conditional formatting issues in Excel often arise from the use of relative references, leading to fragmented or duplicated rules when rows are inserted.

[Conditional formatting] allows Excel to apply a defined format to cells that meet specific criteria. You can use a different background color, font color or border.

Software engineer Chandoo shares some Excel conditional formatting tricks that make for good-looking and useful spreadsheets, like a Gantt chart.

Use Conditional Formatting to Highlight Important Data Using conditional formatting allows me to automatically apply formatting—such as colors, fonts, or borders—based on cell values.

If the contents are a number-even if it is formatted as text by Excel-then the formula returns True, and the condition is met for the formatting.

Task Management You can use conditional formatting for task management scenarios in Excel, but the most common application for me is highlighting overdue tasks.