Poring through large lists is easier if you can add a banded-row look to differentiate rows with color. In this video, learn how to use conditional formatting to create a banded-row appearance.
- [Instructor] If you convert data to a table, … you automatically get a feature, … a visual feature called banded rows. … You have the option of choosing banded columns instead. … In this list here, … it's not a table. … We might want to convert it to a table. … I'll press Control + T that's one quick way to get there. … Make sure the option my table has headers is accurate. … It is here, click okay, … and we've got that application. … And now it's a table and then we see banded rows. … We have 61 different choices out here. … We could choose this to be banded columns, … uncheck banded rows. … That look could be preferable. … Now not all data is a table. … In fact, if you want to be able to use this data … and introduce sub-totals, … you cannot do that if this is a table, … the data tab here off to the right, … you can't use the subtotal feature. … That could be a reason for not wanting … to convert this to a table, … but let's suppose you do want banded rows … or banded columns in a list that's not a table. …
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