Stop painting cells and use conditional formatting to build accessible, formula-ready, and automated Excel spreadsheets.

Q. Is there a way to color-code cells based on their cell content? For example, if cells state “Woman-Owned,” could those cells automatically become red and the cells that state “Large Company” ...

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.

Dropdowns are useful features that simplify data entry and enforce data validations in spreadsheet software. Creating a dropdown list is easy. And you might have done that already in Excel. But did ...