You can set up conditional formatting in Excel for dates. We have included detailed examples you can try while reading the guide.

When you create Microsoft Excel spreadsheets that contain one or more columns of dates, you can make things a bit easier if you pre-format your cells to display date information the way you want ...

How to Reformat a Date in Excel. When you enter a date in one format on a Microsoft Excel worksheet and then want to change the order of the day, month and year, try accessing the Format Cells ...

Learn three simple formatting tricks to make column headings – or other cells – more readable in Excel.

Learn how to highlight dates before today and a specific date with and without using the Today() function in Microsoft Excel.

A row-by-row formatting rule is as easy to apply as a column-by-column in Microsoft Excel, but you might not get the results you thought you would.

In this example, I've used conditional formatting to color any cells in column A containing values between 10 and 25 yellow, and any cells containing values between 26 and 50 green.

If your subtotaling rows are lost in a sea of worksheet data, use this simple conditional formatting technique to make those rows easy to spot.