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Excel Chapter 7A of 24: Excel Conditional Formatting

Let's say that you want to attract attention to certain data in your reports or databases. You would like that when the value of a cell is greater then  $50 the font turns blue and the background color changes to green. You need "Conditional Formatting" .

Select   the cell or the cells where you want this to happen go to the menu bar Format/Conditional Formatting and the following window appears (may vary depending on the Excel version that you use).

Excel Conditional Formatting

Select "greater than" in the second text box, enter 50 in the third  text box and then click on the "Format" button. Choose blue as color for  the font and select the "Patterns" tab and select the color green. Now if you write any number greater than 50 in one of the formatted cells the color of the font and of the background will change. If the value is smaller than 50 the default  format is selected.

When you don't want zero values to appear in a worksheet, you go to "Tools/Options/General" and remove the check for "Zero Values" but if you want not to see only the zero values within the table and not the total cells, select the interior of the table and use a conditional format that says "Cell value"/"Equal to"/0 and then select the color white for the font.

With more and more reports being read on screen the Excel conditional formatting is an interesting tool.

 

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