Improves visual appeal and aids readability

Alternating the colors of rows and columns in Excel, also called banding, is a way to make your document more readable. This practice is useful if you have documents with a lot of data, whether it's for a school project or a work project. Microsoft Excel doesn't have a special button to alternate row and column colors, so you'll have to get creative to achieve the banded row result.

An Excel document offers several ways to alternate row and column colors. For example, you can select specific rows and columns and apply a color to each of them. While this may seem like a simple solution, manually applying row and column colors would be cumbersome if your Excel spreadsheet contains thousands of items. Imagine having to do this for all documents in a workbook. Let's see what you can do to quickly alternate row and column colors in Microsoft Excel.

Using the predefined table styles, you can quickly apply alternate colors to the rows in your Excel document. All you need to do is select your cells and convert them into a table.