Conditional formatting

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Conditional formatting

You can use the ribbon command Home | group Format | Conditional formatting cond_format_icon to apply conditional formatting to cells. This will only be applied if a certain condition is met. Thus, for example, you can specify that a cell should be colored red whenever it contains a value greater than 1000.

You will find out everything you need to know about it on the following pages. The following topics are covered:

Creating new formatting rules

To apply conditional formatting to cells, you select the relevant cells and create a formatting rule for them – for example: "If the cell content is greater than 1000, display the cell in red."
You can apply any number of formatting rules to a cell – for example, you can create a second rule that formats the cell in boldface if it contains a value below zero, etc.

Types of conditional formatting

This section deals with the different types of conditional formatting.

Managing formatting rules

You can use the command Manage rules to centrally manage all conditional formatting in the document, including editing and deleting it.

Removing conditional formatting

The last section covers the removal of conditional formatting.