Excel prompts you in a Remove Duplicates dialog to choose which columns you want to use for this deduping process. This is especially handy if you merge different data sources together into one file.

Open an Excel workbook and select Conditional Formatting > New Rule. Select Format only cells that contain . Select Cell ...

Disabling Excel's auto-formatting is useful when working with data that requires a specific format or coding, such as part numbers or zip codes. It's also beneficial if you plan to use custom ...

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.

Excel offers several built-in conditional formatting rules you can apply to your data. (Click image to enlarge it.) We’ll demonstrate using Excel for Windows under a Microsoft 365 subscription.

After learning the basics, users quickly move on to using Format Painter to copy existing formats to other cells or even entire regions. You’ll work more efficiently using Format Painter.

To format these numbers, you just need to remember to follow this format: formatting for positive number; formatting for negative number; formatting for 0. To use colors, Excel has a handful built in: ...

Excel opens the new Conditional Formatting pane to the right. This pane is much easier to work with than the desktop interface. The Apply to Range is set to the range selected in step 1 by default.

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

Open the Excel 2010 file that you want to make format changes to. Select the top-left cell in the range of cells that you want to change to the accounting format.