Tag: Formatting

How To Apply Conditional Formatting Across An Entire Row In Google Sheets

Conditional formatting is a super useful technique for formatting cells in your Google Sheets based on whether they meet certain conditions.

In this post, you’ll learn how to apply conditional formatting across an entire row of data in Google Sheets.

For example, if the continent is “Africa” in column C, you can apply the background formatting to the entire row (as shown by 1 and 2):

Conditional formatting across an entire row

A template with all these examples is available at the end of this post.

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Google Sheets Advent Calendar

This year, I created a Google Sheets Advent Calendar, which you can see in action here:

Google Sheets Advent Calendar

It was a fun project with some interesting techniques, which are explored below.

You could easily modify it for your own example, or use these techniques in different scenarios.

Plus, if you’re too cheap to buy a physical advent calendar, this lets you enjoy the fun of opening a door each day to reveal something, but for free!
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Making Google Sheets look less like… Google Sheets

This is a guest post from Josh Cottrell-Schloemer.

Google Sheets is an incredibly powerful spreadsheet tool for pulling, processing, and presenting data. But many people don’t realize that you can also use it to build interactive dashboards.

With a bit of creativity we can go from this:

Dashboard Data Table in Google Sheets

To this:

Google Sheets Dashboard

The skills to build this type of dashboard aren’t difficult to learn and you can get started with a basic knowledge of Google Sheets.

Here’s a walkthrough of the dashboard shown above:


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