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To remove all conditional formatting from the entire worksheet,click the Conditional Formatting button on the HOME tab, point to Clear Rules, and click Clear Rules from Entire Sheet.

=IF(A1=A2,D1,NOT(D1)) Select all the data cells in the table. On the Home tab, click Conditional Formatting, New Rule. Click on "Use a formula to determine which cells to format" In the formula box, type this formula, referring to the active data cell: =$D2=TRUE. Click the Format button, and choose a fill colour.

Apply an If-Then rule to all cells by pressing ?Ctrl-A? before assigning your rule. If you copy values from colored cells and paste them into new it new cells, the new cells acquire the color of the copied cell. You may find the ?Text Contains? rule useful when working with alphanumeric data.

If your worksheet already has the IF/THEN/ELSE logic you need embedded in a cell, Conditional Formatting can act based on those results.

Any conditional formatting argument must generate a TRUE result, meaning that at a literal level, your conditional formatting rule is an If/Then statement along the lines of ?If this condition is TRUE, THEN format the cell this way?.

To conditionally format your data, you can utilize preset rules such as Color Scales, Data Bars and Icon Sets or create custom rules where you define when and how the selected cells should be highlighted.

Steps to Apply Conditional Formatting to an Entire Column First and foremost, select the entire column with the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl + Space) or click on the column header. Afterward, go to the Home Tab > Conditional Formatting > Highlight Cells Rule > Greater than.