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The DisplayFormat OM
New features in conditional formatting extend to the object model as well. Excel has traditionally allowed users to access the formatting of their cells through the object model. For example, Users can use the interior class which lives off the range Read More...
More Conditional Formatting Features in Excel 2010
In this blog post I’ll walk through some of the new Conditional Formatting features in Excel 2010 such as: Cross-Sheet References Robust Error Handling Performance Enhancements Cross-Sheet References In Excel 2010, you can create conditional formatting Read More...
Data Bar Improvements in Excel 2010
Data Bars are a popular type of conditional formatting that was introduced in Excel 2007. The basic idea of data bars is that Excel draws a bar in each cell whose length corresponds to the value of the cell relative to the other cells in the selected Read More...
Icon Set Improvements in Excel 2010
Thanks to Amit Velingkar, a Program Manager on the Excel team, for putting together the next few posts on conditional formatting. In Excel 2007, we introduced Icon Sets - a new type of conditional formatting. The basic idea is that Excel draws an icon Read More...
Modifying Conditional Formatting Color Ranges in Excel 2007
Today’s authors, Amit Velingkar, a Program Manager on the Excel team, and Bob Silverstein, a User Experience Researcher on the Excel team, talk about creating professional looking Color Ranges in Excel. Introduction: My fellow PM on Excel, Robin Wakefield, Read More...
Video Tip: Conditional Formatting and Data Validation
Today's author: Sam Radakovitz, a Program Manager on the Excel team that enjoys creating VBA applications in Excel. A bit ago, Joseph had a blog post about community clips on OfficeLabs.com , so for this post, I wanted to take advantage of the video demonstration Read More...
Using Excel 2007 for Progress Tracking in the Classroom
Today's author, Danny Khen, a Program Manager on the Excel team, discusses a solution he recently built using Excel. The Manual Spreadsheet Spreadsheets are the bread and butter of running the business world, where PCs are ubiquitous. The possibility, Read More...
Tracking Split Costs
Today’s Author: Joe Chirilov , a program manager on the who has done a lot of work on both the Excel and Excel Services teams. Joe is going to discuss a spreadsheet he recently built using Excel 2007. Recently a large group of friends and I went on a Read More...
Data Bars – Feedback Please
Today’s author: Scott Ruble, the program manager who leads the charting and visualization efforts in Excel. Scott is looking for some feedback on potential changes to data bar behaviour. Excel 2007 has a conditional formatting feature that graphically Read More...
Feedback Please - Conditional Formatting For Right-To-Left Sheets
We are interested in getting some user feedback on how conditional formatting (Data Bars specifically – see here for some info on Data Bars) should behave when the sheet direction is set to right-to-left (RTL). (Background for those not familiar with Read More...
Conditional Formatting Compatibility
Today we have the third guest post from Eric Patterson, Excel Program Manager. Eric is writing about compatibility in Excel 2007. Conditional Formatting is one of the areas where we have made a lot of improvements in for Excel 2007. Dave has already described Read More...
Fun With Conditional Formatting
Yesterday I wrote about some work I was doing with Tables recently. Today I want to do the same for conditional formatting – specifically, using colour scales. (For a refresher, or for those that are new to this blog, you can read up on changes to conditional Read More...
A bit more on Icon Sets – answers to Biff’s and Harlan’s questions
Since a few of the comments that were made on the last post were more easily answered with pictures, I thought I would just go ahead and make a new post out of it. (I have answered the other comments in the comments section of the previous post.) Biff Read More...
Conditional Formatting Trick 2 – How to get an icon in some cells, but not all cells
A few months ago, I described the new features we have added to Excel 2007 in the area of conditional formatting. One of the new formats we added is called a “icon set” … check out this earlier post for a refresher, but the basic idea is that Excel draws Read More...
Conditional Formatting Trick 1 – Multi-Coloured Data Bars
A few months ago, I described the new features we have added to Excel 2007 in the area of conditional formatting. One of the new formats we added is called a “data bar” … check out this earlier post for a refresher , but the basic idea is that Excel draws Read More...
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