Directional Icon Sets In Excel. This will bring up the apply formatting rule to dialogue box. Icon sets can be accessed by the home menu ribbon s conditional formatting drop down list.
Set type to number for both icons. For the cross icon set 5 where 5 is the number of columns in your table excluding the first icon column. Select the icon set only checkbox.
Let s apply some conditional formatting to these rating numbers.
Select the icon set only checkbox. Your pivot table will look like this. Icon sets in excel are the sets of the different types of icons shapes indicators directions which are used for visualizing the selected values by giving it different meanings to it. Let s apply some conditional formatting to these rating numbers.