How to alternate row colors in Excel To apply color in alternate rows or columns in Excel, follow these steps- Open the spreadsheet with Excel. Select the rows and columns that you want to colorize.

How do you set up a worksheet with alternating colored rows like the traditional columnar pad design? There are many ways, but the easiest, for both Excel 2003 and 2007 is with a Conditional ...

Q. Call me old-fashioned, but I rather liked the way the rows in columnar pads used alternating colors. It made it easier to read across the spreadsheet page. Why doesn’t Excel come that way? A. I don ...

One way to make the data in the grid more readable is to alternate the colors of the rows. A variety of custom controls will let you do this by selecting properties of the control without coding.