How To Use Excel Conditional Formatting

Create a conditional formatting rule and select the formula option.

How to use excel conditional formatting. Select the rule and if you want customize the condition. Conditional formatting that uses cell background colors to highlight different product categories a 3 arrow icon set to show cost trends up level down and data bars to show differences between product mark ups. Choose new rule to open the new formatting rule dialog box. After that go to home tab styles conditional formatting new rule use a formula to determine which cell to format. Now in the format values where formula is true enter below formula.

First of all select the range where you want to apply conditional formatting. Use a formula to determine which cells to format. Click the conditional formatting button in the home tab of the ribbon. First select the cells you want to format. Select the first cell in the first row you d like to format click the conditional formatting button in the styles section of the home tab and then select manage rules from the dropdown menu.

You can use conditional formatting in excel to automatically add color and style to cells that contain certain values or meet other criteria you define. Click on the conditional formatting icon in the ribbon to open the drop down. Hover your mouse over data bars. Select the formatting style. Set formatting options and save the rule.

Go to the home section and click conditional formatting. In the conditional formatting rules manager window click the new rule button. Under select a rule type click the last option. Then go to home conditional formatting and select an option from the built in menu or click on manage rules. Click highlight cells rules greater than.

You can create a formula based conditional formatting rule in four easy steps. Enter a formula that returns true or false. The isodd function only returns true for odd numbers triggering the rule. Here you ll see different formatting options of the data bars. On the home tab click the conditional formatting button on the toolbar and then select new rule from the menu.