Conditional formatting highlights key information in a spreadsheet so it’s easy to see at a glance. This beginner’s guide gets you started. Spreadsheets usually hold a wealth of information, but it ...

Checkboxes in Microsoft Excel are a great tool for tracking progress, improving data organization, and adding an extra layer ...

Excel's text formatting capabilities can make the results of your financial, statistical or scientific spreadsheet calculations more esthetically pleasing and easier to follow. You can use one of ...

Are you tired of manually updating and reviewing your Excel spreadsheets? When you deal with hundreds of rows and columns in ...

Google Sheets has the power to calculate the number of days between two dates, regardless of the date format entered. The only requirement is consistency between manually typed dates and the ...

In Google Sheets, as in other spreadsheet programs, you can set the formatting of a cell (text color, background color) based on the data contained within that cell. This is called "conditional ...

My first instalment on conditional formatting broached the standard, by-the-book protocol for applying conditions to cells: selecting the cells you want to subject to the potential formats, and then ...

Your spreadsheet skillset likely boasts an at-least-passing acquaintance with Excel’s conditional formatting feature – really a miscellany of features – that impose user-specified formatting(s) upon ...

You can hide and unhide rows in Excel by right-clicking, or reveal all hidden rows using the "Format" option in the "Home" tab.

Q. I share several of my spreadsheets with colleagues. Each periodically enters data into various worksheets. Every now and then one of them accidentally enters data in the wrong cell, or, worse, in a ...