How To Create Formatting In Microsoft Excel Conditional formatting is easy and it can make your report effective and also an important feature of Excel. Conditional formatting provides a style of your data. You can set a condition of your data, Let suppose we have a data of school attendance sheet and we want it shows separate color with Absent, Present and Leave. We can make it by Conditional Formatting. Path >>>> Home >> Conditional Formatting >>> New Rules Short Cut Key : Alt + H + L + N In this example, we have data of student's attendance absent and present of one week. We want to highlight the absent fields only. Let suppose we want to highlight all absent as yellow. Follow the path Home >> Conditional Formatting >>> New Rules or use the short cut key Alt + H + L + N . The first step is to select the data where you want to apply the conditional formatting. Then go to Co...