How to Highlight the Top 10 Items

Using conditional formatting, you can quickly highlight the top 10 or top 10% items. Please see below for details, or if you want to highlight top 10% items from the list, please check How to Highlight the Top 10% Items.

Step 1: Select the data range;

Step 2: Click the "Home" tab from the Ribbon;

Step 3: Click the "Conditional Formatting" command in the "Styles" section;

Step 4: Click the "Top/Bottom Rules" command from the drop-down list, then select "Top 10 Items" from the extended list;

Step 5: In the next window, select the formatting style for the top 10 items (or to change 10 to any other number for tops, e.g., top 5);

Step 6: Click "OK" at the bottom and the top 10 values will be in a different color.

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