Learn how to apply advanced formatting to your tabular data using Excel's conditional formatting options. Every marketer should know how to rock them.

Excel's conditional formatting lets you formats cells based on the value of those cells or their formulas. Learn the basics of this amazing feature.

To create data bars in Excel, select your cells and then choose data bars from Conditional Formatting.

Figure H Use color scale formatting to distinguish trends. The color scale format has fewer options for customizing, but like data bars, you can change the minimum and maximum number.

Learn how to add visual insight to data by applying conditional formatting to a table or matrix visualization in Microsoft Power BI.

This guide shows how to create progress bars in Excel using Bar Charts and Conditional Formatting on a Windows 11/10 PC. Take a look.

Similarly, the scores in this table are calculated using numbers that don't hold any numerical value, and the conditional formatting data bars tell the whole story.

Widen that column to give your progress bars more room, like this: Now select the numbered cells, choose Conditional Formatting, Data Bars, and then pick the color you like.

Your spreadsheets don't have to be dry, soul-killing pages of numbers. With Excel 2007's conditional formatting, you can add all sorts of eye-catching visuals to your data. Conditional formatting ...