Step-by-step instructions for using Excel’s conditional formatting feature to highlight rows, which is a handy way to compare records or values. If you can only read one tech story a day, this is it.

If Conditional formatting is not applying to all cells in Excel or Google Sheets, you need to check the formatting and rules.

Use Excel's conditional formatting to flag status changes, budget issues, missing data, duplicates, and deadlines ...

When reading across a wide list of data, such as an account ledger or product description list, it is easy to confuse the rows. This is especially true when scrolling across the screen. To minimize ...

The article, How to highlight unique values in Excel, shows two easy ways to apply conditional formatting to unique values or the row that contains a unique value. In this article, we’ll do the same ...

A giant grid of numbers can be mind-numbing. Once I discovered the magic of color-coded rules, spotting shifts and irregularities got a whole lot easier. A vivid spreadsheet quickly calls attention ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last month, we used conditional formatting to highlight holidays in a matrix-style calendar; we added this enhancement to an ...