To color-code specific text, select the cells that contain (or will contain) the text that you want color-coded. In the example above, I have selected cells B2:B27.

How to Use If-Then Excel Equations to Color Cells. If-Then rules allow you to create colorful business spreadsheets that do more than look pretty. Meaningful colors can help you and others ...

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. Excel lets you ...

Learn how to identify formula cells the easy way using VBA, and then combine VBA and conditional formatting for more permanent identification.

Sometimes you just want to tell Excel what it is you want your formula to do. It'd be a lot easier if you could just say "sort this data in ascending order and find its average" i ...

You can combine text from multiple cells into one cell in Excel using the Ampersand symbol (&) or by using the CONCATENATE function.

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.

None of the spaces here are required. As you can see in the screenshot below, the formula works without these spaces. You can access an Excel workbook and accompanying video below for combining a ...

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.

Excel has over 475 formulas in its Functions Library, but we've selected the most popular, from date and time functions to mathematics and simple data manipulation.