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How to use Conditional Formatting in Outlook

How to use Conditional Formatting in Outlook

Many users have discovered the amazing conditional formatting functions available in Excel, but not many know that you can also use conditional formatting in Outlook. This feature allows you to specify rules based on your incoming email messages so that you can change the formatting as they arrive. Want to make all emails from “Bob” […]

Use conditional formatting to identify dates within a specific range

Conditional Formatting date ranges

My conditional formatting to identify dates earlier than today post has proven to be extremely popular. This post talks about how to conditional format dates within occur in the past. I have had plenty of questions and comments based on this post. A popular question is how to use conditional formatting to highlight a date […]

Use conditional formatting to identify dates older than today

Use conditional formatting to identify dates earlier than today

During a Microsoft Excel training session a few week’s ago, I had a great question about using conditional formatting to highlight dates earlier than the current one, in other words, how can we highlight dates that occur in the past? This was a great question and so I thought I would publish a post this week about how […]

How to copy formatting using Format Painter

How to copy formatting using Format Painter

Each of the Microsoft programs includes some basic clipboard options which incorporate the Cut, Copy and Paste functions. Generally users are pretty familiar with these tools. What many users have not utilised is the fourth function in the group called Format Painter. Format Painter is a quick and easy way to copy the formatting from […]

How to use Styles in Word

How to use Styles in Word

A common issue when working with long documents is how to maintain consistent formatting across all pages? Learning how to use Styles in Word is a fundamental skill that all users should have yet many users don’t understand. Working with a document is not just about adding text, it is also about making that text […]

How to use conditional formatting in Excel

How to use conditional formatting in Excel

Conditional formatting in Excel is one of my favourite features to use. I am a very visual person and would much rather look at colour charts or visual representations of data to give me a sense of what I’m looking at. Conditional formatting is the easiest way to achieve this result. I am always surprised […]