How to remove only conditional formatting from a cell

Conditional formatting is a very useful tool in Excel, it can easily help you to format and shade cells according to specific conditional criteria, but sometimes you may want to remove or clear conditional formatting in Excel. How do you delete conditional formatting in Excel?

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Remove conditional formatting with Clear Rules function
Remove conditional formatting with VBA code
Easily remove conditional formatting and background shading with Kutools for Excel

Remove conditional formatting with Clear Rules function

Clear Rules function can help you quickly and easily remove the conditional formatting in selected range and entire worksheets.

To delete the selected range conditional formatting, please do as this:

1. Select the range that you want to remove the conditional formatting.

2. Click Home > Conditional Formatting > Clear Rules > Clear Rules from Selected Cells. See screenshot:

3. And the selected conditional formatting has been removed. See screenshots:

To delete the entire worksheet conditional formatting, please do as follows:

Click Home > Conditional Formatting > Clear Rules > Clear Rules from Entire Sheet, and the entire worksheet conditional formatting will be removed.

Remove conditional formatting with VBA code

The following VBA code also can help you to remove the conditional formatting.

1. Click Developer >Visual Basic, a new Microsoft Visual Basic for applications window will be displayed, click Insert > Module, and input the following code into the Module:

VBA: remove conditional formatting

Sub DeleteConditionalFormats()
'Update 20130912
Dim WorkRng As Range
On Error Resume Next
xTitleId = "KutoolsforExcel"
Set WorkRng = Application.Selection
Set WorkRng = Application.InputBox("Range", xTitleId, WorkRng.Address, Type:=8)
WorkRng.FormatConditions.Delete
End Sub

2. Then click

button or press F5 key to run the code, and a prompt box will remind you to select a range that you want to use. See screenshot:

3. Then click OK button, and all conditional formatting in the selected range has been removed.

Easily remove conditional formatting and background shading with Kutools for Excel

The Kutools for Excel’s Alternate Row / Column Shading utility can help you remove both the conditional formatting and the background shading at the same time.

Before applying Kutools for Excel, please download and install it firstly.

1. Select the range with the conditional formatting or backgroud shading you want to remove, then click Kutools > Format > Alternate Row / Column Shading. See screenshot:

2. In the Alternate Row / Column Shading dialog box, just select the Remove existing alternate row shading option in the Shading method section, and then click the OK button. See screenshots:

Then all condiation formatting and manual fill colors are removed immeidately.

If you want to have a free trial ( 30-day) of this utility, please click to download it, and then go to apply the operation according above steps.

Easily remove conditional formatting and background shading with Kutools for Excel

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How do I remove conditional formatting but keep formatting?

There are a few ways to remove conditional formatting but keep the effects. One way is to use the Clear Rules feature. To do this, select the cells that have the conditional formatting that you want to remove. Then, go to Home > Styles > Clear Rules.

Can conditional formatting rules be deleted individually?

If you want to remove conditional formatting or formula from just one cell at a time, you can simply right click on the cell and click on remove conditional formatting from the cell. Removing conditional formatting from each cell separately can be a very time-consuming process.