Want to to alternate row colors in Excel? You can apply color in alternate row & column in Excel spreadsheet using Conditional Formatting.

Q: I need to be able to easily color every other row in Excel 2003 and Excel 2007. Can you help me with this?

How to Highlight Every Other ID in Excel. When reading across a wide list of data, such as an account ledger or product description list, it is easy to confuse the rows.

Counting records or values in Microsoft Excel is easy. Counting individual cells by their fill color definitely isn't. Using an old function and a matrix tames the problem.