Here is a quick home work on excel conditional formatting.
Lets say you have data as shown below to left and you need to show zebra lines whenever the value changes (see right).

Your home work is simple. Just figure out how to write conditional formatting rules to add zebra lines.
The data set is here.
Go..
PS: Problem inspired from this post on Chandoo.org forums. Don’t cheat.
PPS: Here is some beautiful help on conditional formatting.














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H1 !
this is my very first comment.
Can you use same technique with Excel 2003 lists ?
thanks 😀
Thanks, Chandoo! I like seeing the sneak peak of what's to come on Friday too 🙂
@Damian.. Welcome to chandoo.org. Thanks for the comments.
Yes, you can use the same with Excel 2003 lists too.
@Tom.. You have seen future and its awesome.. isnt it?
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Hi, is there a vlookup formula for the second example (IDlist)? I used a similar formula to look up the ID for the person, but the reverse way (look up the person with the ID) comes up N/A.