How to Use If-Then Excel Equations to Color Cells. If-Then rules allow you to create colorful business spreadsheets that do more than look pretty. Meaningful colors can help you and others ...

To color-code specific text, select the cells that contain (or will contain) the text that you want color-coded. In the example above, I have selected cells B2:B27.

Learn how to find and replace Text Color in Excel. The classic Find and Replace feature can be used to change the color of text in Excel.

The default active cell format in Microsoft Excel isn't all that easy to see, but you can use this easy-to-implement code solution to change that.