When you see a traffic light, you don’t have to stop and think about what red or green means. You just know what to do because your brain can decode the signal instantly. The colors follow a clear, ...

When you’re parsing through large amounts of data in a Google Sheets spreadsheet, conditional formatting can help you find those bits of information that you want. Conditional formatting helps to ...

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. For example, ...

Format hierarchical financial data using formula-based conditional formatting rules. Build detailed Excel P&L layouts that ...

This week's tutorial covers a number functions in Google's Spreadsheet app, Google Sheets. Here we take a practical look at using weekdays in calculations, introduce "if" statements and learn how to ...

Google Sheets, the spreadsheet tool that's part of the Google Apps productivity suite, lets users format cells based on certain conditions, including the date contained in a cell and how far away that ...

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

Have you ever stared at a massive spreadsheet, overwhelmed by rows and columns of data, wondering how to make sense of it all? Imagine being able to instantly spot trends, outliers, or urgent tasks ...

This week's tutorial covers a number functions in Google's Spreadsheet app, Google Sheets. Here we take a practical look at using weekdays in calculations, introduce "if" statements and learn how 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 ...