If Excel is not highlighting cells in the formula, enable 'Allow editing directly in cells' and 'Enable fill handle and cell drag-and-drop' in Excel options.

The Highlight Function in Excel. Regardless of whether your Excel spreadsheet contains a little or a lot of data, you may want to have cells that meet certain criteria stand out.

Customizing highlighting styles in Excel provides a powerful means to enhance data representation and create a visual impact. By carefully selecting colors, leveraging conditional formatting rules, ...

Learn how to highlight cells with negative values in Excel. Make negative numbers stand out in Red using Conditional or Custom Formatting.

If your subtotaling rows are lost in a sea of worksheet data, use this simple conditional formatting technique to make those rows easy to spot.

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.

Susan Harkins shows you how to combine a function and conditional formatting to highlight weekends and holidays using Excel.