MS EXCEL

 

Microsoft Excel is one of the most used software applications of all time. Hundreds of millions of people around the world use Microsoft Excel. You can use Excel to enter all sorts of data and perform financial, mathematical or statistical calculations.

1.       Range: A range in Excel is a collection of two or more cells. This chapter gives an overview of some very important range operations.

2.      Formulas and Functions: A formula is an expression which calculates the value of a cell. Functions are predefined formulas and are already available in Excel.

This page talks about some of the methods you can use when you are making marks sheets and doing data analysis for the assessments you made. Most importantly, changing font colour based on the value in the cell.

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Change the font color based on the value in the cell
This Excel tutorial explains how to use conditional formatting to change the font color based on the value of a cell in Excel 2010 (with screenshots and step-by-step instructions).

To do this, select the cell that you wish to apply the formatting to. In this example, we've selected cell B8.

Select the Home tab in the toolbar at the top of the screen. Then in the Styles group, click on the Conditional Formatting drop-down and select Manage Rules.

When the Conditional Formatting Rules Manager window appears, click on the "New Rule" button to enter the first condition.

When the New Formatting Rule window appears, select Format only cells that contain as the rule type.
Then select Cell Value in the first drop down, greater than in the second drop down, and enter 10 in the final box. In our example, we've selected when the cell value is greater than 10.
Next, we need to select what formatting to apply when this condition is met. To do this, click on the Format button.

When the Format Cells window appears, select the formatting conditions that you wish to apply. We've changed the Color to Red. Then click on the OK button.

 When you return to the New Formatting Rule window, you should see the preview of the formatting in the Preview box. In this example, the preview box shows the text in red. Next click on the OK button.

This will return you to the Conditional Formatting Rules Manager window.
If you wish to apply more than one condition, you will need to click on the New Rule button again.

We've added two different conditions. When you're done, click on the OK button.


Now when you return to the spreadsheet, the conditional formatting will be applied. As you can see, the value in cell B8 appears in red.




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