Summary  
This chapter covers customizing and managing conditional formatting rules—such as icon sets for threshold-based indicators and date-based highlighting—by defining thresholds, configuring display options, and editing or removing rules.  

General domain of usage  
Performance dashboards

**Icon sets** place a small visual symbol — a traffic light, an arrow, a flag — directly inside the cell. The reader doesn't need to read the number to understand whether something is good, borderline, or problematic.

### Date-based Rules

Date-based rules are most useful for deadlines, due dates, and payment schedules. A payment deadline column can highlight dates that fall this week in amber, dates that have already passed in red, and dates more than a month away remain unformatted.



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Messy spreadsheets turn into clean, structured data. Tables, sorting, filtering, and smart input rules help keep everything accurate and easy to work with.

Raw data becomes clear and readable. Formatting, alignment, and conditional highlights make important insights stand out instantly.

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Managing Formatting Rules

Date-based Rules