You can set up conditional formatting in Excel for dates. We have included detailed examples you can try while reading the guide.

There are several ways to make data stand out visually in an Excel spreadsheet, but one of the simplest and most effective is to apply conditional formatting. What is conditional formatting in Excel?

Helen Bradley demonstrates Excel formatting tricks that will help you when things don't work as planned. Learn her methods now.

In Excel, you can apply direct formatting to cells' values or backgrounds to make the spreadsheet easier to read. However, when an Excel formula returns a set of values—known as a spilled array ...

You can have Excel make a spreadsheet in read only format for others, so that people can read its contents but not edit them, or you can enforce other content restrictions.

Graphs in Excel help break down your data into an easily digestible format. Here’s how to make a graph in Microsoft Excel.

SEE: Here’s how to create a drop-down list in Excel. Apply custom formatting Now, let’s apply this custom format and see what happens: Select the range you want to format.

Open the Excel 2010 file that you want to make format changes to. Select the top-left cell in the range of cells that you want to change to the accounting format.

Need to know your organization's YOY results? Susan Harkins will show you how to make a PivotChart in Microsoft Excel.

How to create an interactive dashboard in Microsoft Excel Now that you have a basic idea about interactive dashboards in Microsoft Excel, let’s check them out in action.