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 ...

A Gantt chart is a visual representation of tasks on a timeline. Excel has no option to easily insert a Gantt chart into your spreadsheet. Creating a Gantt chart in Excel involves preparing data, ...

Reader Tom saw our previously posted Excel Gantt chart template and said he had a better one to offer. Why a spreadsheet? Tom says: I do most of my project planning in MS Project which is great, ...

Understanding Excel’s conditional formatting rules can help prevent unintended results Your email has been sent Avoid frustration and unintended formatting by learning how Excel applies conditional ...

How to work more productively online using new conditional formatting options to highlight dates in Excel Your email has been sent Software Installation Policy Five ...

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, ...

Excel's conditional formatting tool applies formatting depending on cells' contents. Validation rules can change cells font, style, size or border. They can also change the text's color. For example, ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Conditional formatting in Excel allows you to format cells based on a set of rules. This will draw attention to the data you want to highlight and make your ...