Font styling (bold, italic, color) in Excel - Practice Problems & Coding Challenges

Challenge - 5 Problems

📊 Formula Result

intermediate

What is the result of applying this font style formula?

You want to make the text in cell A1 bold and red using Excel conditional formatting formula. Which formula will correctly apply the red color and bold font when the value in A1 is greater than 100?

Excel

Use conditional formatting with formula: =A1>100

A Set font color to red and font style to bold in the conditional formatting rule

B Set font color to red only, font style bold is not possible with formulas

C Use formula =IF(A1>100, "bold and red", "normal") in conditional formatting

D Set font style to italic and color blue in conditional formatting

💡 Hint

Conditional formatting can change font style and color based on a formula.

Conditional formatting rules can change font color and style like bold when the formula condition is true. Setting font color red and bold font style together is possible.

❓ Function Choice

intermediate

Which Excel function can change font color directly in a cell?

You want to change the font color of text inside a cell using an Excel formula. Which function can do this?

A FONT.COLOR()

B TEXTCOLOR()

C No Excel function can change font color directly in a cell formula

D COLORFONT()

💡 Hint

Think about whether Excel formulas can change font appearance directly.

Excel formulas cannot change font color or style directly inside a cell. Font styling is done via cell formatting or conditional formatting.

🎯 Scenario

advanced

You want to highlight cells with italic blue font based on a condition

You want to apply italic font style and blue font color to cells in column B where the value is less than 50. How do you do this using Excel features?

A Use VBA macro only, conditional formatting cannot change font style

B Use a formula =IF(B1<50, "italic blue", "normal") in the cell

C Manually select cells and change font style and color, no formula needed

D Use conditional formatting with formula =B1<50 and set font to italic and color blue

💡 Hint

Conditional formatting can change font style and color based on formulas.

Conditional formatting allows setting font style (italic) and color (blue) when the formula condition is true.

📊 Formula Result

advanced

What happens if you apply this conditional formatting formula?

You apply conditional formatting with formula =AND(A1>10, A1<20) and set font to bold and red color. What will be the font style and color of cell A1 if its value is 15?

A Font will be bold and red

B Font will be normal and black

C Conditional formatting will cause an error

D Font will be italic and blue

💡 Hint

Check if the value 15 satisfies the formula condition.

Value 15 is greater than 10 and less than 20, so the condition is true. The font style and color set in conditional formatting will apply.

❓ data_analysis

expert

Analyze font styling impact on readability in a large dataset

You have a large Excel sheet with thousands of rows. You want to highlight all negative numbers in column C with red italic font to improve readability. Which approach is best for performance and clarity?

A Use a VBA macro to loop through each cell and change font style and color

B Apply conditional formatting with formula =C1<0 and set font color red and italic style

C Manually format each negative cell in column C with red italic font

D Add a new column with text "Negative" and filter instead of changing font style

💡 Hint

Think about automatic and efficient ways to format many cells.

Conditional formatting automatically applies font style and color based on the formula and is efficient for large datasets.