Or, if easier, highlight the row if all cell values are not the same.
I'll have four (or six) columns of data and need to see where any differences occur across each row occur. I tried to follow a youtube vid on conditional formatting but couldn't alter it to work. I'm on excel for mac v16.
To format all cells in a row if they have the same value, you can use the following formula as your condition:
=COUNTIF($A1:$F1,$A1)=6
(Assuming data is in columns A to F)
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I'm trying to randomly highlight (change the cell colour) of four cells in the first Excel column. It is important the selections highlighted are only cells containing data as the size of the data set will vary.
The highlighted selections needs to be un-highlighted when the macro is run again to generate four new selections.
I have tried to brute force this with functions (RAND-RANK-XLOOKUP), but the outcome is messy and doesn't react to different sizes of data.
Highlighting the cells in a color is the goal, conditional formatting could be suitable.
Four random cells from the first column of the Excel sheet is the target (cells only containing data).
Using Conditional Formatting
Let's say you have data in column A. For example 16 rows like this:
You could use the COUNT() function to calculate the number of cells with content in column A in cell D1 :
=COUNT(A:A)
And then you could calculate the position of the cells you want to highlight with
=RANDBETWEEN(1,$D$1)
Then you can create a helper column to check if a cell should be highlighted.
Formula in G2 : =IFERROR(MATCH(CELL("row",A2)-1,$D$2:$D$5,0)>0,FALSE)
The idea behind this function is simply to check if the row of the data point corresponds with one of the random positions we have.
Finally, you would use a formula to define your conditional formatting by applying it to Column A and using =$G2 as the formula.
Note that:
The highlighing will reset everytime you change a cell provided that you have "Automatic calculations" turned ON.
There is a possibility that 2 or more of the random positions are the same, so you'll need to recalculate if that's an issue.
I have a worksheet with two columns of data. Column A contains thousands of records, and Column B contains only a few records. I wish to identify which values in Column B do not exist in Column A, and display these in Column D. What is the quickest way to achieve this? Happy to use formulas, or otherwise.
I would use conditional formatting and filters:
Formula being:
=ISERROR(MATCH(A1,B:B,0))
I'd then filter on highlighted cells, select the cells in column A and use Alt+; to select only the visible cells, then paste in D.
Last, I'd clear all the conditional formatting and clean up anything left.
Using formulae would be a little more complex; usually the most of the time would be spent designing it, and it's an array formula (invoked correctly only with Ctrl+Shift+Enter):
=IFERROR(INDEX($A$1:$A$27,SMALL(IF(COUNTIF($B$2:$B$6,$A$2:$A$27)=0,ROW($A$2:$A$27),9^99),ROW(D1))),"")
The formula can also take some time to calculate for larger datasets.
Sheet One has 5 cells in a row with numbers. (A2:F2)
Sheet Two also has 5 cells in a row with numbers. (A3:F3)
I'd like to highlight sheet one's cells yellow every time that sheet two has a matching number entered. (There will be more rows of data added to each sheet, but I am using the first row only, to keep it simple.
It works with creating a CF equals to, but I need something that applies to a range of data, from a range of data to make this less tedious. Thank you for any tips!
I am using conditional formatting. I have tried Vlookup, Match, and Countif, but I am new to this type of formatting.
(Sheet two's numbers can be placed in a list (column), instead of a row, if that matters)
I'd suggest using COUNTIF:
=COUNTIF(Sheet2!$A:$F,A2)>0
Snapshot of Sheet1 and the Conditional Formatting:
Snapshot of Sheet2:
I am trying to figure out if it is possible to use a formula with conditional formatting or a VBA macro to highlight a cell based on a cell with identical contents in another column, with varying data.
To explain more thoroughly, let's say I have column A, with unique content in each row, rows 1-280. Each row is formatted to be a string of text, such as "12E00" or "97EBC." I also have column T, which is based on imported data, and may contain some of, but not all of, nor in the same row, the data from column A. It also starts at row 9, not row 1. This is repeated on 47 different tabs, with differing row contents on different tabs (some may have 1-280, others may have 1-160).
Is there some conditional formatting formula/macro (with an explanation of the working components of possible, so that I can learn myself and educate my supervision on the inner workings) that would allow me to highlight any of the cells in column A that have the same text string shown somewhere in column T? Additionally, keeping in mind that I'm checking every row in column A against column T and that column T will only contain some of the text strings in column A.
I assume there is a better way to accomplish this.
But if I understood the question correctly, then try using: =ISNUMBER(MATCH(cell,column,0))
I would then make a column next to Column A for each sheet you want to check.
Example table, with a column for each sheet checked, and a column for checking if any sheets matched. Matched cells are highlighted.
47 columns might be too much to, therefore I used Column B to do:
=OR(Table1[#[sheetName]:[otherSheetName]])
Each column have the formula: =ISNUMBER(MATCH([#[Column A]],INDIRECT(C$1&"!T:T"),0)) (C$1 is pointing to the column's header row)
Utilizing INDIRECT() the column will always look in column T in the sheet with the same name as the column header.
The highlighting is done with these conditional formatting rules
I have a 1600-2000 rows of data in a spreadsheet that changes daily. I would like to highlight any row that contains such as 000000000000053851 in the R column. I had tried conditional formatting using this formula:
=OR($R1="000000000000549543",$R1="000000000000267294,$R1="000000000000053851")
but it seems to highlight a few rows that are blank in column R also.
Using the same numbers highlighted in column R, I would like to have an alternate number and possibly other data pasted into the corresponding row in column S. Each number has a unique alternate number and data to go along with it. This is how I picture a line may look with the highlighting and alternate data next to it:
I intend to record a macro using a few of the different steps that are likely required to do this. Any way, whether conditional formatting or an array formula, would be great to help with this.
For the sample provided, a CF rule of:
=LEFT(R1,12)="000000000000"
applied to ColumnR will format the sample and if you wish the cell immediately to the right. It will not highlight blank cells.
HOME > Styles - Conditional Formatting, New Rule..., Use a formula to determine which cells to format and Format values where this formula is true:, enter formula from above and Format... with Fill red, OK, OK.
If you want the cell to the right to be formatted also, select ColumnsR:S instead of just ColumnR and change R1 in the formula to $R1.
For the cell to the right you provide few details but VLOOKUP in conjunction with a two-column table should suit. Column on the left being the ColumnR value, with the right-hand column for the same row the ColumnS value required. This table could be placed almost anywhere.
This could all be done with Record Macro.