It's a familiar situation for every Excel user: you open the Conditional Formatting Rules Manager and discover that the neat little rule you created has somehow multiplied into dozens—or even hundreds ...

You don’t need a complex expression to add conditional formatting to a filtered PivotTable in Microsoft Excel. Microsoft Excel PivotTables range from easy to complex, and data and reporting ...

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 ...

A straight ranking result is easy using one of Microsoft Excel’s ranking functions. Calculating a conditional rank is even easier if you let an Excel PivotTable do all the work. Ranking data is common ...