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What you'll learn?
- Basics of Conditional formatting
- Kinds of conditional formatting
- Custom conditional formatting with formulas
- How to highlight lines that are
- How to build a search box with conditional formatting. Filtering to find data works, but it hides everything else. With this clever formula, you can easily highlight just the data you're looking for and leave the rest alone for reference.
- How to calculate and highlight expiration dates - quickly highlight dates that are within 60 days, 30 days, or any time frame you need
- How to do zebra striping with conditional formatting - with simple formulas, you can apply
Course Overview
One of the hottest trends today is data visualization. Why? Because when data is presented visually, people understand it immediately. This course will show you how to use Excel's conditional formatting to communicate key insights with clarity and impact. This is an accelerated program that takes you step-by-step through the capabilities of this powerful tool
What you'll learn
The basics
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What is conditional formatting?
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How conditional formatting is applied with rules.
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How to create, manage, and delete new conditional formatting rules.
Kinds of conditional formatting
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How to use conditional formatting to highlight top and bottom values
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How to use conditional formatting to mark values that are above or below average.
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How to use conditional formatting to create in-cell data bars.
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How to use color scales with conditional formatting.
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How to apply conditional formatting with icons.
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How to highlight specific text with conditional formatting.
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How to show duplicate values with conditional formatting.
Custom conditional formatting with formulas
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How to apply conditional formatting with a formula. Formulas are the gateway to more powerful and flexible conditional formats.
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How to apply Conditional formatting based on a value in a different cell
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How to use Conditional formatting with variable inputs. This pro tip lets you set up a rule, then change its behavior by changing values on the worksheet.
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How to highlight rows with conditional formatting formulas. This is a classy technique that you can use all the time to build cool-looking worksheets.
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How to test a conditional formatting formula. When you're creating new formulas, the trickiest problem is to make sure the formulas are working correctly. You'll learn a simple way to confirm your formulas before you waste a lot of time.
Practical applications
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How to add a dynamic conditional formatting "key" (a cool trick).
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How to highlight lines that are "too long" with conditional formatting - a great example of how to use CF for quality control.
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How to build a search box with conditional formatting. Filtering to find data works, but it hides everything else. With this clever formula, you can easily highlight just the data you're looking for and leave the rest alone for reference.
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How to calculate and highlight expiration dates - quickly highlight dates that are within 60 days, 30 days, or any time frame you need.
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How to do zebra striping with conditional formatting - with simple formulas, you can apply "zebra stripes" with exactly the formatting and logic you want. This makes it really easy to toggle formatting on or off as you like for a polished and professional effect.
Pre-requisites
- Having Excel installed, any excel version will do
Target Audience
- People who want to learn Excel Conditional Formatting
- Advanced users who might need to do a review and go back to the basics on excel conditional formatting
- Beginners to Intermediate Users who want to develop their excel skills
- Controllers that work with excel, power bi python and so on that will find conditional formatting very useful for developing their controls and alerts to the next level
Curriculum 23 Lectures 00:41:41
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Section 1 : Course Introduction
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Section 2 : Conditional Formatting Introduction
- Lecture 1 :
- What is conditional formatting?
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Section 3 : Working with conditional formatting rules
- Lecture 1 :
- How to create a conditional formatting rule
- Lecture 2 :
- How to revise a conditional formatting rule
- Lecture 3 :
- How to add additional conditional formatting rules
- Lecture 4 :
- How to delete conditional formatting rules
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Section 4 : Built-in Conditional formats
- Lecture 1 :
- How to highlight top and bottom values
- Lecture 2 :
- How to highlight above and below average values
- Lecture 3 :
- How to use data bars with conditional formatting
- Lecture 4 :
- How to use color scales with conditional formatting
- Lecture 5 :
- How to use Icon sets with conditional formatting
- Lecture 6 :
- How to highlight text values with conditional formatting
- Lecture 7 :
- How to show duplicate values with conditional formatting
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Section 5 : Conditional formatting with formulas
- Lecture 1 :
- How to apply conditional formatting with a formula
- Lecture 2 :
- Conditional formatting with one variable input
- Lecture 3 :
- Conditional formatting with two variable inputs
- Lecture 4 :
- How to highlight rows with conditional formatting
- Lecture 5 :
- How to highlight rows using multiple criteria
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Section 6 : Practical application
- Lecture 1 :
- How to add a conditional formatting key
- Lecture 2 :
- How to check line length with conditional formatting
- Lecture 3 :
- How to build a search box with conditional formatting
- Lecture 4 :
- How to create zebra stripes with conditional formatting
- Lecture 5 :
- How to compare two lists and highlight differences
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