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The conditional formatting command has following options:
Highlight Cells Rules: This option is selected when you want to highlight all cells satisfying a
given condition. When you hover mouse over this option, it opens a sub-list showing criteria like
Greater Than, Less Than, Equal To, Between, etc.
Top/Bottom Rules: This option is selected when you want to highlight some top or bottom
number of items in a data series. When you hover mouse over this option, it opens a sub-list
showing criteria like Top 10 Items, Top 10%, Bottom 10 Items, Bottom 10%, etc.
Data Bars: This option is selected when you want to add data bars to the cells having numeric
data. When you hover mouse over this option, it opens a sub-list showing bars of different types
and colours that can be added to the cells.
Color Scales: This option is selected when you want to add colour schemes to all selected cells
slowly varying from top to bottom items. When you hover mouse over this option, it opens a
sub-list showing different colour variations that can be added to cells.
Icon Sets: This option is selected when you want to add icon sets to show which cells are
acceptable, which are moderate and which need attention. The different types of icon sets that
can be added are shown in the sub-list that opens when the mouse is hovered over this option.
You can also define your own rule for highlighting cells by selecting New Rule option from the
Conditional Formatting drop-down list.
The conditional formatting features applied to a data range can be cleared by selecting Clear Rules
option from the Conditional Formatting drop-down list.
USING DATA VALIDATION
Data validation means to restrict the user to enter a specific range of values in a particular cell or a
range of cells. Perform the following steps to use data validation:
4 Select Whole number from
2 Click on the the Allow drop-down list.
Data tab.
3 Click on the
Data Validation
command.
1 Select the cell
or a range of cells
on which you
want to apply
data validation. 5 Enter 0 and 100 in the Minimum
and Maximum textboxes.
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