How to Format a Color Chart in Excel. Microsoft Excel gives you a boatload of options for changing the format of color charts. You can change the layout of a chart, then customize that layout to ...

How to Make Colors Change With Validation in Excel. Excel's conditional formatting tool applies formatting depending on cells' contents. Validation rules can change cells font, style, size or border.

To change Gridline color in Excel, use Excel Options, apply a custom-colored border to the cells, or apply a custom line color. Full details here.

You can change the color of the default gridlines in Excel from the File tab, by selecting Options, Advanced. In the Display options for this worksheet section, click the Gridline color drop-down box ...

The default active cell format in Microsoft Excel isn't all that easy to see, but you can use this easy-to-implement code solution to change that.

My problem is that I cannot change the text color or add a background color fill in Excel. I am up-to-date according to Microsoft. I also have turned off Conditional Formatting.

This tutorial will show you how to change the default Color, Shape, and Font of a Comment Box in Excel the easy way.

Thanks to the linked cell property in Microsoft Excel, it's super easy to use the selected value as a condition in a macro or conditional formatting rule.