Conditional formatting in excel v2

Conditional formatting in Excel

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Conditional Formatting

• Makes spreadsheets of complex data easier to read by formatting cells based on the data contained.

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Highlight text in cells

Home tab

Click here for Conditional Formatting options

Highlight column to apply formatting to

Cursor over option Highlight Cell Rules

As the column contains text, click Text that Contains….

Type text to format in this boxClick here to choose formatting

Choose the option for how you want to format the data

Click OK

All of the cells within the highlighted range now have the chosen formatting

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Colour scales

Highlight column you wish to format Click Conditional

Formatting

Put cursor over the Color Scales option

Put cursor over formatting option

Text is displayed to show the formatting which will be chosen if this is applied.

Select More Rules to have more control over how formatting will appear

Options to format the cells

Format Style Options

Value on which to carry out the formatting

Colour of formatting can be chosen

Click OK to finalise formatting

Three colour formatting based on the value compared to other cells in the range

Click here to find out how to cancel

formatting

Cancelling rules

Click Conditional Formatting

Cursor over Clear Rules

Select Clear Rules from Entire Sheet

Formatting on the sheet clears

Click here to

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