Conditional formatting can be accessed from the ‘Home’ tab.

Conditional Options

The following options are available in the drop-down menu. Which can be used to format cells with numerical values, dates, text contents, find duplicates, identify variances in a range of values and other various uses.

Create a conditional formatting rule

Let’s say that you want to find marks greater than 25 from the following table.

This can be easily done by applying conditional formatting.

1- Select the data range that you want to be evaluated

2- Go to ‘Conditional Formatting’ > Highlight cell values > Greater than..

3- Enter the pass mark and Formatting to be applied.

4- The result will be shown as follows

Also note that multiple conditional rules can also be applied.

5- Again select the data range you want to be evaluated.

6- Go to ‘Conditional Formatting’ > New rule, and do the changes as required.

7- For the above requirements, following result is added to the original formatting.

Create a conditional formatting rule 2 (applying color scale bars)

Depending on the values of the data range, a color scale can be easily given. Which would depend on the value of the cell, so the data can be visually interpreted. See the following example that we have applied color range to a data table.

To enable this option go to ‘Conditional Formatting’ > Color scales and then select and customize the color bars as you want.

The following result is obtained for the above set conditions.