When you see a traffic light, you don’t have to stop and think about what red or green means. You just know what to do because your brain can decode the signal instantly. The colors follow a clear, ...

This week's tutorial covers a number functions in Google's Spreadsheet app, Google Sheets. Here we take a practical look at using weekdays in calculations, introduce "if" statements and learn how to ...

Microsoft Excel 2019 is a powerful management tool for many business owners. It combines the simplicity of a cell-based information system with formatting features that both highlight important data ...

Have you ever stared at a massive spreadsheet, overwhelmed by rows and columns of data, wondering how to make sense of it all? Imagine being able to instantly spot trends, outliers, or urgent tasks ...

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

Have you ever stared at a massive spreadsheet, feeling overwhelmed by rows and columns of data that all seem to blur together? You’re not alone. Whether you’re tracking project deadlines, analyzing ...

For you advanced users who want to skip ahead: You apply the conditional formatting using a custom formula and some variation on the INDIRECT function. In addition to specifying the column and row, ...

Quip, a startup with mobile apps for crafting and collaborating on documents, has turned on some useful capabilities when it comes to working with spreadsheets. Now you can click a couple of buttons ...

My weekly spreadsheet audit is gone, and I haven't missed it once.

Your spreadsheet skillset likely boasts an at-least-passing acquaintance with Excel’s conditional formatting feature – really a miscellany of features – that impose user-specified formatting(s) upon ...

Your spreadsheets don't have to be dry, soul-killing pages of numbers. With Excel 2007's conditional formatting, you can add all sorts of eye-catching visuals to your data. Conditional formatting ...