# Fictional Excel conditional-formatting exercise

The companion XLSX workbook already has this fictional table and a deliberately short conditional-formatting rule installed. This plain-text version is a fallback if you need to build the practice sheet yourself. It contains no real people or accounts; paste the table into Excel starting at **A1**.

| Task ID | Status | Owner |
| --- | --- | --- |
| W-01 | Done | Ava |
| W-02 | Late | Noah |
| W-03 | Open | Mia |
| W-04 | Late | Liam |
| W-05 | Done | Eva |
| W-06 | Late | Owen |

The data occupies A1:C7. To reproduce the specific failure, make a formula-based conditional format over `A2:C6` with `=$B2="Late"`. W-06 is intentionally outside that range. Then change **Apply to range** to `A2:C7` and inspect the result.

Expected colored IDs: W-02, W-04, W-06. Expected plain IDs: W-01, W-03, W-05.