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

Excel's conditional formatting lets you formats cells based on the value of those cells or their formulas. Learn the basics of this amazing feature.

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1. Use Conditional Formatting: Conditional formatting can help you highlight important dates and milestones. Apply different colors to different phases of your project for better clarity. 2.

You don’t need a complex expression to add conditional formatting to a filtered PivotTable in Microsoft Excel.