Visual Conditional Formatting Elements

Learning Objectives:

  • Understanding how data bars are used with conditional formatting.
  • Learning Excel's color scales feature.
  • Learning the purpose of icon sets.


Data Bars

Data Bars is a conditional formatting condition that add colored bars to cells in a range to indicate how large the cell values are compared to the other values.

Excel Data Bars example

Color Scales

Color Scales are a conditional formatting condition used to highlight cells in a range to indicate how large the cell values are compared to other values in the range.

Excel Color Scales example

Icon Sets

Icon Sets is a conditional formatting condition that adds icons to cells in a range to indicate how large the cell values are compared to the other values in the range. Icon sets can be used together with other conditional formatting rules.

Excel Icon Sets example