insert alternate blank columns

Are you talking about formatting or data?

If you want every second column filled with colour, select the area that you want formatted then in Condition Formatting, New, Use Formula.... Enter this and choose the formatting that you want

This will start the colour in the first column:

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This will start the colour in the second column:

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