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My spreadsheets often include historical data, followed by forecasts or estimates. I like to put forecasts and estimates in italics. Data from other sources I format in green. Graph your data. One of ...

Your spreadsheet skillset likely boasts an at-least-passing acquaintance with Excel’s conditional formatting feature – really a miscellany of features – that impose user-specified formatting(s) upon ...

Adventures in spreadsheet journalism lesson six: Crunching text-based data Spreadsheets are about numbers, of course, but they're not only about them. In fact, a mass of text-based data is out there ...