Launch Microsoft Excel. Select the entire range of columns along with the rows. Apply Conditional Formatting to the selected range of rows and columns. Click OK. Let’s see the above steps in ...

Figure D In Figure E, you can see that I changed the date in row 6 to Feb. 13, so you can see this rule at work. The record in row 5 isn’t highlighted because it’s complete.

Select the data range, B3:E16–you want to highlight the entire row. If you use a Table, Excel will update range as you add and delete records. The demonstration file contains a Table example.