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.