Have you ever stared at a colorful Excel spreadsheet, wondering how to quickly calculate totals or counts based on cell colors? It’s a common frustration for anyone managing large datasets. While ...

Let’s say you have a student gradebook file open in Excel and it contains information for the students in your class. As you look through the students’ grades, you highlight the names of students to ...

Microsoft Excel has a great sorting feature that works quite well. However, it is possible to use this feature to sort cells based on their color. Multiple colors are supported, and from our testing, ...

Microsoft Excel 2007 introduced means of sorting and filtering your data by the color of your cells and their text contents. When you use color to highlight important information, such as cost data ...

If you use Microsoft Excel for your business, you can customize the colors in your spreadsheets and graphs to brand your work; this is particularly helpful if your company has a standardized color ...

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