Excel does not support conditional formatting in charts, but we can solve it with a little trick. Original data will be split into a new table and then will be displayed by Stacked Column chart. The result will look like conditional formatting.

Example

Let us have following data table. We want to highlight a column in chart having a value less than 20.

Simple chart for this table looks like this:

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