Author: BrainBell

Conditional formatting is a powerful feature of Excel that lets you change the appearance of cells based on their values. However, using the menus and dialog boxes of the GUI to apply and remove conditional formatting can be tedious and time-consuming. A better way to control conditional formatting is to use checkboxes on your worksheet that let you switch it on and off easily and quickly. This way, you can view your data in different ways whenever you want, without going through multiple steps.

Whenever you see a nifty 3D effect in a program or application such as Excel, you are actually seeing an illusion created by specific formatting. It is easy to create this illusion yourself by applying formatting to a cell or range of cells.

You can apply different colors to rows or columns based on their position using conditional formatting and the MOD function. This function returns the remainder of a division operation. For instance, you can use it to check if a row number is odd or even and assign a color accordingly.

Conditional formatting is a useful feature in Excel that allows you to highlight data based on certain criteria. But what if you want to use formulas that only refer to the cells that have conditional formatting applied? Excel doesn’t have a built-in function for this, but there are some workarounds that you can use.

The IsFormula returns TRUE if the reference cell houses a formula and FALSE if it does not. You can use this Boolean result in conjunction with conditional formatting so that all formulas are highlighted automatically in a format of your choice.

Conditional formatting in Excel allows you to format selected cells based on values or formulas you specify. However, enabling and disabling it through the ribbon and dialog boxes can be a hassle. Fortunately, by incorporating checkboxes into your worksheet, you can effortlessly control the formatting and enhance your ability to interpret data according to your preferences.

The UNIQUE and FILTER functions are very useful for providing a dynamic list of items for a Data Validation list. In this tutorial, we will use the two columns of a table to generate a dependent drop-down list with spill ranges.

A drop-down list is a useful feature that allows you to select a value from a predefined set of options. You can create a drop-down list from another worksheet in your workbook, so that you can have a central source of data that can be referenced by multiple worksheets.

In this tutorial, we’ll discuss how to prevent weekend entries to restrict the input of dates that fall on Saturdays or Sundays. This can be useful for applications such as scheduling, booking, or reporting that only operate on weekdays.

A cascading (dependent) data validation list in Excel is a way to create a drop-down list that changes based on the value selected in another cell. For example, you can have a list of categories in one cell and a list of types (or subcategories) that belong to that category in another cell. This allows you to limit the choices and avoid errors.