My 9 Favorite Excel Formatting Tricks to Make My Data Pop. Story by Tomisin Olujinmi • 6mo. E xcel is a powerful tool for ...

To get started, select the data you want to format in Excel, in this case, that’s C3:F6 and do the following: On the Home tab, click Conditional Formatting (in the Styles group) and choose New Rule.

If you have multiple sheets in your Microsoft Office Excel 2007 workbook, you can spend a lot of time editing the format of each page. Fortunately, Excel 2007 enables you to select all pa.

Excel offers several built-in conditional formatting rules you can apply to your data. (Click image to enlarge it.) We’ll demonstrate using Excel for Windows under a Microsoft 365 subscription.

Excel's page layout view makes it easy to format an entire page of business cards. Once you've entered that view by clicking its button on the Views tab, run the Row Height command to specify a ...

By smartly using cell borders, shading, data validation, and other formatting techniques, you can improve the visual appeal ...

To clear formatting from the selected cells in your workbook in Microsoft Excel, you can use Clear Formats, Keyboard shortcuts, Format Painter tool, etc.

Formatting using color is such a basic function of Excel that if, after all of the above, you still find that the color options aren’t working, I can only conclude that there must be something ...

Date Formatting. Excel gives you quite a few options to choose from under Number > Date in the Format Cells dialog (which, again, you get to by pressing Ctrl-1 or Command-1 on the Mac).

The Number format in Microsoft Excel is quite powerful, but sometimes it will fail to work, and that’s a problem for advanced users. When this happens, Excel will not recognize values as numbers.

Formatting values to categorize them or get our attention is a common practice in Microsoft Excel. Fortunately, a conditional formatting rule usually does the trick, and the feature is easy to use.