Software engineer Chandoo shares some Excel conditional formatting tricks that make for good-looking and useful spreadsheets, like a Gantt chart.

Conditional formatting is used when you want to apply styles to a large number of cells using data within cells to determine how a cell is formatted. Maybe you want to draw attention to dates that are ...

Outlook Calendar allows you to create appointments or meetings. Learn how to color code the Calendar in Outlook using Conditional Formatting.

When you think VBA code is your only hope, try combing built-it conditional formatting tools. You might just find an easier solution than writing code.

Gmail does not have conditional formatting. You can use filters to put email in different folders (what Gmail calls labels) or put it in different tabs along the top of the inbox.