Microsoft Excel 2007 introduced means of sorting and filtering your data by the color of your cells and their text contents. When you use color to highlight important information, such as cost data ...

Can Excel sort by color? Absolutely. In addition to sorting by values, Excel can sort by cell color, font color, and cell icon. First, you must you must define the colors for your sort columns/fields.

With Microsoft Excel, you can simplify data entry by adding a drop-down list to a cell, allowing users to pick an option from the list instead of entering data. You can further tailor the spreadsheet ...

Let’s say you have a student gradebook file open in Excel and it contains information for the students in your class. As you look through the students’ grades, you highlight the names of students to ...

Dropdowns are useful features that simplify data entry and enforce data validations in spreadsheet software. Creating a dropdown list is easy. And you might have done that already in Excel. But did ...

How to easily sum values by a cell’s background color in Excel Your email has been sent Color is a great visual tool in most any sheet. That’s why so many of Excel’s built-in features include color.

How to count individual cells within a row by their fill color in Excel Your email has been sent The article How to easily sum values by a cell’s background color in Excel shows you an easy way to ...

In this post, we will show you how to change the default color, shape and font of a comment box in Excel. Microsoft Excel allows you to add comments to cells within worksheets. These comments could ...

Excel Conditional Formatting already lets you format cells based on the value of those cells or the value of the formulas in those cells (see our conditional formatting tutorial for more details). Now ...