To minimize errors and simulate traditional ledgers, you can format the Excel spreadsheet to highlight every other row or restrict highlighting to a single column of IDs.

Q: I need to be able to easily color every other row in Excel 2003 and Excel 2007. Can you help me with this? A: To accomplish this in Excel 2003, you could use the one ugly auto-format option ...

Microsoft Excel works best when you have a consistent grid of individual cells placed in rows and columns, so merging cells disrupts this spreadsheet structure.

Formatting every other row is easily accomplished using conditional formatting. Fortunately, conditional formatting can handle something more specific, formatting every even or odd row.

And if you replace the word ROW in the formula with COLUMN, the color scheme will be installed for every other column instead of every other row. In Excel 2007, follow the same basic procedure. On the ...

Have you ever spent hours perfecting your Excel spreadsheet, only to watch your carefully crafted formatting fall apart the moment you insert a new row? It’s a maddeningly common issue for Excel ...

What’s the difference between a table and a range of columns and rows on an Excel spreadsheet? How do I create and populate tables? And, once a table is created, how do we custom filter, format ...

I have a work sheet, it has 10,000 rows.2,000 of those are for the state of New York.So I add a filter, then drop down on the state column and select New York.I then have 2,000 rows displayed.I ...