Software engineer Chandoo shares some Excel conditional formatting tricks that make for good-looking and useful spreadsheets, like a Gantt chart.

Microsoft Excel’s conditional formatting is a wonderful “automatic” feature that allows you to formats cells based on the value of those cells or the value of the formulas in those cells.

Conditional formatting highlights key information in a spreadsheet so it’s easy to see at a glance. This beginner’s guide gets you started using conditional formatting.

Conditional formatting lets you transform static Excel spreadsheets into dynamic canvases of information. You can set different rules with formatting conditions, and the system highlights cells ...

Understanding your data and how Excel's conditional formatting works is the key to accurately using icons to represent data.