How To Make Negative Numbers Red in Google Sheets
Learn how to easily highlight negative numbers in red using conditional formatting in Google Sheets, making your data analysis clearer and more efficient.
We wanna turn negative numbers, red. We have a bunch of sales and prices and costs, and we have these profits. We wanna know, obviously we can see the number , we wanna know what's positive, what's negative, but we wanna be able to see that super clearly. So let's select the entire D column. We're gonna go to format conditional formatting . Now here on the right side, we can change our format rules greater than or less than, and we'll do zero. And we'll turn this fill color to red. We can also change the text color if we want to really amp it up a little bit. However, I wanna show you one interesting thing. We have the D column. As the range .
Let's change this to the A column, to the D column, and instead of this format rules with this sort of easy less than we're going to change this to custom formula is we're gonna say equals D one is less than zero. Now over on the left side you can see the sales column is red. But if I put a dollar sign in front of the D, the entire row is highlighted red. This makes data sort of looking and searching much, much easier. Click done. That is the whole row . You are watching better sheets here on YouTube. Make sure you check out this video or this video and subscribe right now to get more tips, tricks, how tos, get more out of your Google
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