This week's tutorial covers a number functions in Google's Spreadsheet app, Google Sheets. Here we take a practical look at using weekdays in calculations, introduce "if" statements and learn how to ...

In Excel, common causes include using relative references in formulas (so the rule shifts unexpectedly), mismatched data types (e.g., numbers stored as text), or having multiple overlapping ...

A row-by-row formatting rule is as easy to apply as a column-by-column in Microsoft Excel, but you might not get the results you thought you would. Conditional formatting in Microsoft Excel has been ...

Conditional formatting highlights key information in a spreadsheet so it’s easy to see at a glance. This beginner’s guide gets you started. Spreadsheets usually hold a wealth of information, but it ...

Whether you’re tracking sales, managing budgets, or analyzing trends, the challenge of pulling out meaningful insights from an Excel spreadsheet can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. But ...

Formulaic conditional formatting rules in Microsoft Excel can be tricky, so learn how to avoid a common mistake. Microsoft Excel’s conditional formatting is a flexible tool that applies formatting on ...

When you see a traffic light, you don’t have to stop and think about what red or green means. You just know what to do because your brain can decode the signal instantly. The colors follow a clear, ...

Conditional formatting is used when you want to apply styles to a large number of cells using data within cells to determine how a cell is formatted. Maybe you want to draw attention to dates that are ...

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, ...