How do you remove only conditional formatting from a cell and leave all other formatting intact

Copy a cell that has no conditional formatting
Select the cells with de conditional formatting you want to delete
Click Edit > Paste special > Paste conditional formatting only.

Conditional formatting is a fast and nice way to visualize data in Excel. It comes with many options but probably the one most use are the background colors: A color on a color scale is applied automatically based on the cell contents. For example, the lowest value in a range of cells in red color and the highest value in green. But what, if you want to remove conditional formatting rules? It’s usually simple as you will see below. But as soon as the rules are gone, the background colors go back to the original colors (for example white background). Here is what to do if you want to clear the conditional formatting rules but keep the formats!

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Method 2: Clear conditional formatting and keep the formats with Professor Excel Tools
How do I remove conditional formatting but keep formatting?
How can you clear all the formatting without actually removing the cell contents?

At first, let’s take a short look at how to remove conditional formatting rules in general.

Easily remove conditional formatting from selected cells or the entire sheet.

It is actually quite simple: Just

go to the Home ribbon,
click on Conditional Formatting,
then click on “Clear Rules” and select the scope (Selected Cells or Entire Sheet).

That’s it. Easy, right?

So, we have learned above how to clear the rules. But what, if we at the same time want to keep the formats? The color scale? The answer is: A VBA macro.

First, select all cells which you want to clear the rules from on your Excel sheet.
Then, open the VBA editor (press Alt + F11 on the keyboard), insert a new VBA module (here is how to do that) and copy and paste the following code.
Now, place the mouse courser within the code and click on Start on the top.

That’s it!

Sub removeConditionalFormattingButKeepColors() Dim cell As Range For Each cell In Selection cell.Interior.Color = cell.DisplayFormat.Interior.Color Next Selection.FormatConditions.Delete MsgBox "Done removing conditional formatting rules." End Sub

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Method 2: Clear conditional formatting and keep the formats with Professor Excel Tools

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Clear conditional formatting but keep formats with Professor Excel Tools.

Just select the cells you want to remove the rules from, go to the Professor Excel ribbon and click on “Clear Cond. Formatt.”.

Besides background colors, the “Clear Conditional Formatting” feature of Professor Excel Tools keeps all other common types of cell formatting (font colors, border, etc.).

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How to Use Conditional Formatting With Formulas in Excel

This is not possible-you can remove only all formatting from a cell.

Select the cell. On the Home tab, click Conditional Formatting > Clear Rules > Clear Rules from Selected Cells.

Right-click the cell and select Delete Conditional Formatting.

Right-click the cell and select Remove Conditional Formatting.

Answer:
Select the cell. On the Home tab, click Conditional Formatting > Clear Rules > Clear Rules from Selected Cells.

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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?

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

Quickly clear or remove all formatting of cells

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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.

How can you clear all the formatting without actually removing the cell contents?

To clear all contents, formats, and comments that are contained in the selected cells, click Clear All. To clear only the formats that are applied to the selected cells, click Clear Formats. To clear only the contents in the selected cells, leaving any formats and comments in place, click Clear Contents.

How do you remove only conditional formatting from a cell and leave all other formatting intact