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What Is Conditional Formatting and How Is It Useful Conditional formatting in Excel is a feature that allows you to automatically apply specific formatting to cells based on their content. By ...

Click Conditional Formatting in the Styles group and choose New Rule. In the top pane of the resulting dialog, click the last option, Use a Formula to determine which cells to format.