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. For example, ...

Jazz up your Microsoft Excel workbook by creating conditional statements to visually represent trends within your data. The Conditional Format tool allows you to define conditional statements to ...

You can use conditional formatting to display simple graphs at the cell level. Susan Sales Harkins explains how. Thanks to conditional formats, graphs can be embedded at the cell level. Well, they’re ...

To create data bars in Excel, select your cells and then choose data bars from Conditional Formatting. Data bars are a kind of conditional formatting, with the bar length based on the value of the ...

If you need a legend longer than your data, you’ve gone too far.