If you liked finger painting as a child, you may love using your mouse to paint colors in Microsoft Excel. When you highlight cells in your business spreadsheets, Excel selects them. You're then free ...

Widely shared Excel methods often ignore better tools that improve structure, automation, and maintainability.

In this post, we will show you how to count colored cells in Microsoft Excel. While working with Excel, we often color-code cells to distinguish them from the rest of the data. This is good because ...

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, ...

Conditional formatting tricks: Sum values in Excel by cell color Your email has been sent When you think VBA code is your only hope, try combing built-it conditional formatting tools. You might just ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: I just got a new computer in November, equipped with Windows 10. I purchased and installed Microsoft Office.

Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets are programs that allow users to arrange and make sense of a great deal of data. This information can be ordered into neat, color-coordinated columns and rows (using ...