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 ...

While working with Excel, we often color-code cells to distinguish them from the rest of the data. This is good because the only concern is to grab someone’s attention.

See the screenshot below. 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. At this ...

That cell’s fill color is set to Cyan (a neon blue). rngOld, which is the previous active cell is set to nothing—in effect, removing the temporary format. Finally, rngOld is set to Target.

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.

Click "Use a Formula to Determine Which Cells to Format" from the Select a Rule Type section. Enter "=mod (row (),2)=0" without quotes in the Edit the Rule Description section to alternate row colors.

Note: Changing the gridline color won’t affect the default color (light grey) of the new worksheet (s)/workbook (s). 2] Cell Borders Border and gridlines are different in Excel.