Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet software with legions of fans. Learning Excel and its functions and formulas can be tricky, but here are the basics.

In Excel, the formula bar is the toolbar at the top of the spreadsheet that lets you enter or view the information in a cell.

Excel Conditional Formatting already lets you format cells based on the value of those cells or the value of the formulas in those cells (see our conditional formatting tutorial for more details ...