Apply conditional formatting to your cells
What is conditional formatting?
With conditional formatting, you can predefine the format that you want your cells to have, based on a few criteria. Zoho Sheet lets you format your cells with three different types of conditional formatting. They are,
- Classic Conditional Formatting.
- Color scales
- Icon sets
Apply classic conditional formats
To apply single-color/classic conditional formatting,
- Click on the Format menu.
- Select the Conditional Formatting option.
- Click on Classic from the drop down.
- Once the Conditional Formatting window appears, select the range of cells you want the conditional formatting to be applied to.
- You can format the cells based on cell value, text, date, cell content or a formula.
- You can specify how you want the cells to be formatted, by customizing the color, font style, font size etc.,
Apply color scales as conditional formats
To apply color scales as conditional formatting,
- Click on the Format menu.
- Select the Conditional Formatting option.
- Click on the Color Scales option from the drop down menu.
- In the dialogue box that appears, select the range of cells to which the conditions are to be applied.
- Specify the colors to be applied to each cell, based on the "Minimum", "Maximum" and the "Midpoint" criterion that you provide. These values are by default automatically calculated if you don't provide them.
- Hit Ok.
Apply icon set based conditional formatting
To apply color schemes as conditional formatting,
- Click on the Format menu.
- Select the Conditional Formatting option.
- Click "Icon Sets" from the drop down.
- Specify the range of cells to which the Icon Set based formatting is to be applied.
- Choose the Icot Set you seem fit, from the list of sets available.
- Set rules for the cell values and specify the icons to be shown when the criterion is met.
- Hit Ok.
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