You Can Check The Conditions Against When Applying Conditional Formatting (2023)

FAQs

Can you check the conditional against when applying conditional formatting? ›

We can check the conditions against Cell value or Formula when applying conditional formatting.

Conditional formatting is used to change the appearance of cells in a range based on your specified conditions. The conditions are rules based on specified numerical values or matching text. Changing the appearance of cells can visually highlight interesting data points for analysis.

On the HOME tab, in the Styles group, click the arrow next to Conditional Formatting, and then click Manage Rules. The list of conditional formatting rules are displayed for the current selection including the rule type, the format, the range of cells the rule applies to, and the Stop If True setting.

Conditional formatting can change the appearance of a cell based on certain conditions, including evaluating numeric values as True/False. Formula Evaluation: Verify if there are any formulas in nearby cells that are referencing the cell in question.

b) You can set condition to look for Bold and apply Italics on them: This statement is not true. Conditional Formatting does not have the capability to look for specific formatting styles, such as bold or italics, and apply formatting based on them.

Apply conditional formatting based on text in a cell

Click the first cell in the range, and then drag to the last cell. Click HOME > Conditional Formatting > Highlight Cells Rules > Text that Contains. In the Text that Contains box, on the left, enter the text you want highlighted.

There are 5 types of conditional formatting visualizations available: Background Color Shading (of cells) Foreground Color Shading (of fonts) Data Bars.

Excel has a limit of three conditional formats per cell or range of cells because each conditional format requires additional processing power. If you apply too many conditional formats, it can slow down your spreadsheet and make it more difficult to work with.

Manage Multiple Conditional Formatting Rules

Here you can see that I have three rules: one to check if the cell has a value in it; one to check if the cell is greater than 1; and one to check if the cell is greater than 3.

What are the 3 conditional formatting options? ›

To conditionally format your data, you can utilize preset rules such as Color Scales, Data Bars and Icon Sets or create custom rules where you define when and how the selected cells should be highlighted.

Incorrect Reference

When you apply conditional formatting using the formula, you may refer to a different cell by mistake. See the example below: The range where I want to apply the conditional formatting rule is A2:A12. And the formula needs to refer to cell A2 instead of A1.

The answer is yes and no. Any conditional formatting argument must generate a TRUE result, meaning that at a literal level, your conditional formatting rule is an If/Then statement along the lines of “If this condition is TRUE, THEN format the cell this way”.

So, the statement "The conditional formatting is used to format the data according to specified condition" is indeed true.

The answer is yes and no. Any conditional formatting argument must generate a TRUE result, meaning that at a literal level, your conditional formatting rule is an If/Then statement along the lines of “If this condition is TRUE, THEN format the cell this way”.