{"id":4788,"date":"2019-11-11T12:42:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T12:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/?p=4788"},"modified":"2024-03-26T11:06:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T11:06:23","slug":"conditional-formatting-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officetuts.net\/excel\/examples\/conditional-formatting-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Conditional Formatting Rules in Excel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Conditional formatting is very useful if you have to deal with thousands of rows of data. With conditional formatting, you can visualize trends and patterns much more quickly than without it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can find this feature by navigating to Home >> Styles >> Conditional\nFormatting<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The five top icons are quick rules with suboptions, but if you want to have bigger control over them, you have to create a new rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conditional formatting rules<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After you click on the New Rule button, you get access to\nsix types of rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this tutorial, I’m going to explain each of these rule types. Here’s an example, we are going to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Format all cells based on their values<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With this rule, you can create conditional formatting<\/a> for data bars<\/strong>, color schemes,<\/strong> and icons\nsets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The difference is that when you create a New Rule, you have\nmuch more control over the way how this formatting is displayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 and 3 color scales<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

If it’s a color scale<\/strong>, you can choose exactly which color you want to use for minimum, midpoint, and maximum values. You can also type, such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n