The Microsoft Excel conditional formatting highlight allows the user to highlight cells that meet confident criteria. You can automatically highlight any cell whose value meets your specified criteria. Compare this to manually highlighting cells and you will see that Microsoft Excel's conditional formatting is a huge time saver.
Do you want to automatically highlight cells within your workbook based on the contents they contain? If a value is below the value of your criteria do you want to automatically see it with red cell shading? Well you can.
It never amazes me at what an enthusiastic response I get when I first introduce person to the Microsoft Excel Conditional Formatting feature. Of all the cool things that Microsoft Excel can do, conditional formatting seems to be the one that gets the most excited response. Population just love it and they want to learn how to use it for themselves. So should you.
It allows you to visually validate the information in a exact cell or set of cells based on your criteria. It analyses each cell to see if it matches your criteria. If it does, then it will be formatted. If not, then it will support its formatting.
Let's take a uncomplicated example of why it is the easy way to go. Let's say that you wanted to highlight every cell with a value that is less than 10. The first selection is to manually look at each cell, and if the value is less than ten, you would manually apply the red cell shading. Now this is fine if you have a small amount of cells or a lot of free time to do it this way. But what if you have ten thousand cells to validate? That is just not practical. But if you apply Excel's condition formatting highlight to those cells, well then, it is not only manageable, it is easy. Once you understand just how easy it is, you too will be a fan of conditional formatting.
Now to apply it you need to understand the steps that you need to take to implement it. The first step is to specify the set of cells in your Excel workbook to which you want to apply the conditional formatting. The second step is to specify the criteria to be used. The third and final step is to apply it to the range of cells to be validated. Implementing it is not difficult to do, but it does take a time to fully understand how it works. It is not exactly intuitive. Most Population can learn how to use it in about an hour. But depending on your needs and your quality to pick-up new things it might be much less than that.
The Microsoft Excel help files do a good job of guiding the user straight through the process of setting up conditional formatting, so take a look at those as well, by using the 'F1' key to bring it up on your screen.
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