Formulaic conditional formatting rules in Microsoft Excel can be tricky, so learn how to avoid a common mistake.

Avoid frustration and unintended formatting by learning how Excel applies conditional formatting rules.

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.

In these scenarios, use conditional formatting. In this example, you want the cell in column E to turn blue when there's a number in column A of the corresponding row.

Learn how to highlight cells with negative values in Excel. Make negative numbers stand out in Red using Conditional or Custom Formatting.

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 ...

Susan Harkins shows you how to visually identify holidays using Excel's conditional formatting feature.

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