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Conditional formatting in Power BI visuals allows you to draw attention to, or highlight, data in text or numeric fields using color, icons or data bars. You can also assign URL's to fields to make them clickable and load web pages. Let's look at how to apply all of these different types of conditional formatting. …
Managing projects or tasks can be improved with a visual representation of progress and milestones. Thankfully, an Excel project management dashboard like the one below is relatively easy to build, requiring no programming or add-ins. Download Workbook Download the Excel file containing the Excel project management dashboard and step by step instructions. Enter your email …
When you select a cell, or cells, in Excel, the row and column headers change color to indicate what you have selected. As you can see here we have selected B2. Or is it 2B? Hmm, 2B or not 2B? If you have a busy sheet though, you may want a more obvious indication of …
Conditional Formatting in PivotTables has its ups and downs. Unfortunately I find them mostly ‘downs’ but let’s not dwell on the negative as the few ‘ups’ might still make it worthwhile depending on your needs. The Upside of Conditional Formatting PivotTables When you apply Conditional Formatting to the Values area of your PivotTable the formatting …
Gantt charts are handy for planning and managing project tasks over time. They give a visual representation of the whole project, displaying progress to date and work to come. In this tutorial you'll learn how to build an Excel Gantt chart using Conditional Formatting. We’ll also look at how we can highlight tasks that are …
Excel’s Conditional Formatting tool is diverse with loads of built in rules that you simply point and click to use, but I find more often than not that I need to use a formula based rule. I can sympathise if you’ve ever tried to use formulas in your conditional formatting and ended up tearing your …
This Excel Factor entry was sent in by Rob Anderson of Oxfordshire, UK. Project planning and other tracking worksheets can be enhanced with Conditional Formatting. Rob uses a clever trick to quickly colour code cells using conditional formatting like columns F:M below: Remember painting by numbers? It’s a bit like that. Where 1 = blue, …
This Excel Factor tip was sent in by Shannon Hommel of the UK. If you’re setting up a template or a workbook for other’s to use and you can’t password protect it (for whatever reason), then the next best thing is to highlight the cells containing formulas. This is not only an Excel ‘Best Practice’, …
Imagine examining hundreds of rows of raw data in Excel in an attempt to find a pattern or trend. You’d go mad! Thankfully one of the tools we can use to make this task simpler is Conditional Formatting. The Conditional Formatting features in Excel 2007 are massively improved and now include many default Conditional Formats, …
