Color Rows According to Criteria in Microsoft Excel

Posted by accountingweb on Apr 22 2004 206 printer friendly

You can use coloring to isolate data in lists and to differentiate between various types of data.

Make sure the list is set to AutoFilter.

Filter the year 1996 according to the following criterion – from the drop-down list for the Year field, select 1996.
Select a cell in the list of data – press Ctrl+* (select the current region).
From the Formatting toolbar, select Fill Color, and then select any color.
Filter the year 1997 according to the following criterion – from the drop-down list for the Year field, select 1997.
Select a cell in the data list, and press Ctrl+* (select the current region).
From the Formatting toolbar, select Fill Color, and then select a different color from the one you selected before.
Turn off AutoFilter.

Voice of the Editor

Even though any accounting auditor would tell you it seems like there are an awful lot of tax accountants out there, surely one-third of the country isn't made up of tax preparers, so it's rather startling news to learn that one-third of Americans like to do their taxes. Who knew?

This Week on AccountingWEB

Bill Walter of Gross, Mendelsohn & Associates and Harold Gaar of TravisWolff LLP weigh in on mobile technology use while employees are at work.

WestArk RSVP and Fayette County Community Action Agency – organizations that received grant funding through the IRS Tax Counseling for the Elderly (TCE) program – spoke with AccountingWEB about how they assist senior citizens in their communities.

CPA Robert Raiola, who heads the Sports & Entertainment Group of Fazio, Mannuzza, Roche, Tankel, LaPilusa, LLC, talks NFL player income taxes with AccountingWEB.

Retiring KPMG Centennial Professor of Accounting at the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business Robert May, PhD talks with AccountingWEB about his rewarding forty-three-year career.