You can highlight data in cells by using Fill Color to add or change the background color or pattern of cells. Here's how: Select the cells you want to highlight. Tip: To use a different background color for …

To fill cells with a custom color, select the arrow next to Fill Color , select More Colors, and then in the Colors dialog box select the color that you want. To apply the most recently selected color, select Fill …

For each theme color you want to change, select the button next to that color, and then select a color under Theme Colors. To add your own color, select More Colors, and then select a color on the …

Add or change a fill color Select the cells in which you want to add or change the fill color. On the Table Design tab, click the arrow next to Shading. Click the color you want from Theme Colors or Standard …

You can apply conditional formatting to a range of cells (either a selection or a named range), an Excel table, and in Excel for Windows, even a PivotTable report.

Highlight or shade alternate rows of data with colors or patterns to improve the readability of your Excel worksheets.

There are two ways to apply shading to alternate rows or columns —you can apply the shading by using a simple conditional formatting formula, or you can apply a predefined Excel table style to your data.

To change the color of a sheet tab, right-click the tab, point to Tab Color and pick a color that you want. Tip: Click away from the formatted tab to see the new tab color. If you want to remove the color, right …

You can make the data on your worksheets more visible by changing the font color of cells or a range of cells, formatting the color of worksheet tabs, or changing the color of formulas.

On the Page Layout tab in Excel or the Design tab in Word, click Colors, and then click Customize Colors. Click the button next to the theme color you want to change (for example, Accent 1 or …