Conditionally Format Chart’s Background in Excel – How To

Excel charting is in the air for last few weeks and we are learning some really cool tricks on making charts better looking and also fulfilling the purpose. Today we will learn how to...

Birth Dates Heat Map in Excel – How To

First off whoever has birthday on July the 7th my best wishes to all of them. You people have a very interesting birth date. 7 and 7. Everyone's birthday is interesting in one or...

Conditional COUNT in Excel: Count cells meeting multiple criteria + Data Cleanup Tip

We have been provided with a top secret data of one lab situated at the very center of the earth. A team of vigilant individuals take readings of different parameters to monitor the temperature...

Formatting Numbers in Excel – Conditional Formatting Vs Custom Number Formatting

Accountants are always dealing with numbers. And its not always about highlighting positives. In some cases we have to make negative numbers standout and having a negative sign is just not enough. Similarly to...

Highlight every Nth row in Excel Tables – How To

By default, every second row in Excel tables is highlighted and the other option is to turn highlighting off completely. Though it does help most often but often times we may find a need...

How to Highlight Blank Cells in Excel using Conditional Formatting [Quick Tip]

With huge data pinpointing blank cells is near to impossible. Sometimes back we learnt how to fill blank cells with zero using Go-To special feature in Excel. But what if we only want to...

Make Budgets in Excel with Expenditure Limit – Budget Ceiling using Data Validation ...

Budgets help control the expenditures even before they actually incur. The concept of budget is to provide a ceiling or cap to expenditures so that departments or cost centers don't exceed a certain limit. If...

ABC Analysis using Conditional Formatting in Excel

ABC analysis is an inventory management technique in which stock is classified in usually three categories on the basis of their importance. Such classification help management to concentrate their efforts on such products that...

Using Conditional Formatting to highlight range of percentages in Excel

With conditional formatting feature, Excel makes even the numeric bits easy to understand with visual aids. Conditional formatting lets you format the cell and text within in relation to particular condition. Suppose you want your...

How to LOOKUP using ONLY Conditional Formatting in Excel

Few days back we learnt how to do 2-way lookup i.e. looking up the value against two criteria. You can learn it in detail here: How to do 2 Way Lookup in Excel – One...