Excel Conditional Formatting Introduction
Excel Conditional Formatting Introduction
Conditional Formatting Introduction
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What is Conditional Formatting?
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Apply Conditional Formatting to a Cell
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You can control the following formats:
Number format
Font, font style, and font colour (but not font size)
Fill colour and fill pattern
Border colour and border style (but not border thickness)
If the rules (conditions) that you specified are met, then the formatting is applied.
For example, you can set conditional formatting so that a cell turns red if its value is low, and turns
green if its value is high.
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turns green if it contains a value higher than 75 and
turns red if it contains a value lower than 50.
Follow these steps to apply conditional formatting to cells:
1. In cell I1, type the high value 75
2. In cell I2, type the low value 50
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3. Select the cells to be formatted. In this example, cells E2:E7 are selected.
4. On the Ribbon's Home tab, click Conditional Formatting
5. To format the high values, click Highlight Cell Rules, then click Greater Than...
6. In the Greater Than window, delete the value that appears, and click on cell I1, where the High
value is entered.
7. Click the drop down list for formats, and click Custom Format.
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8. In the Format Cells window, click the Fill tab, and click on the green fill colour that you want.
9. Click OK to close the Format Cells window, and click OK to close the Greater Than window.
The cells with values greater than 75 are now coloured green.
1. Select the cells to be formatted. In this example, cells E2:E7 are selected.
2. On the Ribbon's Home tab, click Conditional Formatting
3. To format the high values, click Highlight Cell Rules, then click Less Than...
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4. In the Less Than window, delete the value that appears, and click on cell I2, where the Low value
is entered.
5. Click the drop down list for formats, and click Custom Format.
6. In the Format Cells window, click the Fill tab, and click on the green fill colour that you want.
7. Click OK to close the Format Cells window, and click OK to close the Less Than window.
The cells with values greater than 75 are now coloured green, and cells less than 50 are red.
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