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Conditional formatting

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Conditional formatting

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how we can bring out pivot tables to life with conditional formatting. This is a four star, rather advanced tip and that's only because there are some nuances here that make conditional formatting with pivot tables a little bit trickier than conditional formatting with standard cell values. So, we're going to start by the same old familiar rules from the Home tab. Data bars, color scales, icon sets, et cetera, to highlight patterns or trends in the pivot table itself, kind of like this. In this case, we've added formatting to visualize patterns and average prices and average point ratings for different lines for a given center country, in this case, Canada. Now, unlike traditional self formatting, we can actually specify some options for how the pivot table format reacts to changes in the table layout. So in other words, these options here allow us to determine the scope of the formatting that we've applied. So you can scope that formatting to a selected range of cells, to all cells…

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