Conditional Format Assistant

An add-in product for Microsoft Excel that formats cells based on many different conditional tests.

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  • Format cells based on many different tests
  • Not memory intensive
  • Does not slow down Excel
  • Menu driven for ease of use
  • Easy to learn via help and exercises

The Conditional Format Assistant add-in for Microsoft Excel is designed to help you format cells based on hundreds of different conditional tests. And it does not use conditional formatting equations which are difficult to write, understand, and review.

The conditional tests are specified on a worksheet. The following illustrates such a worksheet:

Conditional Format Assistant worksheet example
Example conditions worksheet

The following are the tests (numeric and text) that you can use:

  • between
  • not between
  • equal to
  • not equal to
  • greater than
  • less than
  • greater than or equal to
  • less than or equal to
  • Is
  • Contains
  • Begins with
  • Ends with

The Conditional Format Assistant main dialog has a menu item titled “Create a Conditional Format Assistant worksheet” that constructs a worksheet like the one illustrated above. When you click on a cell in the conditions' column, a dropdown appears that gives you the above test choices.

To format cells, you would select the range of cells to be formatted, select the conditional format test rows from the above worksheet, and click OK.

The Conditional Format Assistant comes with both a help file and an exercise file. The exercise file is the fastest and easiest way to learn to use the features of the Conditional Format Assistant.

The formatting done by the Conditional Format Assistant is not dynamic. If the values of formatted cells change, you will need to re-run the add-in. Nor does it increase the number of format conditional tests found in Excel.

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