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 You find Excel's highlight function under the "Conditional Formatting" button in the Styles section under the Home tab.

Who's high? Who's low? Who's average? If you're working in Excel, conditional formatting can help you determine who falls within the ranges you set.

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

Susan Harkins shows you how to visually identify holidays using Excel's conditional formatting feature.

How to Make Colors Change With Validation in Excel. Excel's conditional formatting tool applies formatting depending on cells' contents. Validation rules can change cells font, style, size or border.

The functions provided by the add-in appear to be a part of Excel. Add-ins are, therefore, a special type of workbook that you’ve converted to a format understood by Excel.