From the course: Excel: Conditional Formatting for Beginners

Highlight data dynamically with conditional formatting

From the course: Excel: Conditional Formatting for Beginners

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Highlight data dynamically with conditional formatting

- [Dennis] When displaying data, sometimes the numbers just don't tell the story as vividly as you might want. With Conditional Formatting, a popular and rich feature with lots of capability, you have numerous techniques to apply different cell background colors, font colors, or borders based on content differences, that can give added weight to the data you want to emphasize. I'll show you how you can use features like data bars, color scales, and icon sets that make your data even more eye-catching, so you can easily spot trends and patterns in your data. I'm Dennis Taylor. I've been working with Excel for years, and I'm excited to show you one of Excel's greatest features, Conditional Formatting. So let's get started.

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