Excel automatically copies the formatting into the range when you release the mouse button. To copy conditional formats multiple times, double-click Format Painter.

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How to Format Fractions to Percentages in Excel. The cells in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet can hold various types of numerical data, including fractions and percentages.

Pro Tip: To open formatting options, just select the cell (s) you want to format and press Ctrl-1 (Mac: Command-1). This actually works for anything in Excel: charts elements, images, etc.

Formatting using color is such a basic function of Excel that if, after all of the above, you still find that the color options aren’t working, I can only conclude that there must be something ...

Avoid frustration and unintended formatting by learning how Excel applies conditional formatting rules.

Learn how to highlight dates before today and a specific date with and without using the Today() function in Microsoft Excel.

Microsoft Excel’s RANK.EQ() function ranks a set of values, but in a busy sheet, the top-ranking items might get lost. You can combine RANK.EQ() with a conditional formatting rule to highlight ...

Software engineer Chandoo shares some Excel conditional formatting tricks that make for good-looking and useful spreadsheets, like a Gantt chart. Cond ...