Excel 365 Conditional Formatting

Conditional formatting is a way to take a data set and apply special formatting to certain results. It makes it much easier to see patterns as well as sort and filter your data. This book will walk you through the various options for applying conditional formatting to your data. * * * This book is part of the Easy Excel 365 Essentials series of titles. These are targeted titles that are excerpted from the main Excel 365 Essentials series and are focused on one specific topic. If you want a more general introduction to Excel, then you should check out the Excel 365 Essentials titles instead. In this case, Intermediate Excel 365 which covers conditional formatting as well as a number of other topics, such as pivot tables and charts.

In this lesson we cover all the options for applying conditional formats to a workbook. Conditional formats are formatting rules that we can apply so when a cell's number changes, the format will change automatically. This is an excellent feature to use to draw a user's attention to outlying numbers, problem areas or to give a quick visual summaries of the data. We will cover: * Highlight Cell Rules * Top/Bottom Rules * Data Bars * Color Scales * Icon Sets * Using Formulas In all the above, we will also go into how to customize all the options to make any report automatically update itself according to the criteria we set. Like the other lessons, this lesson contains a link where you can download a follow along workbook and practice what is covered. Note: If you know about conditional formatting and consider yourself an Excel expert, this book is not for you. This is for Excel beginners who want to learn about this feature in plain English with no technical jargon. The images, exercises and workbook are for Excel 2013 for Windows. Most of the images and exercises will work with Excel 2010/2007 (but there may be slight differences). The workbook will not work with Excel for Mac.

This is the first edition of a textbook written for a community college introductory course in spreadsheets utilizing Microsoft Excel; second edition available: https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/beginningexcel19/. While the figures shown utilize Excel 2016, the textbook was written to be applicable to other versions of Excel as well. The book introduces new users to the basics of spreadsheets and is appropriate for students in any major who have not used Excel before.

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