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I have an excel file that displays data about jobs and customers. One tab contains a list of bids and their dates of expected completion. This tab has conditional formatting applied that turns the job name font red if a certain cell contains an "X" (meaning "bid but not yet approved/denied"). Another tab pulls data from that list and turns it into a calendar for visual reference. It uses textjoin to create a list of jobs in a cell based on a date of expected completion.
ex:
{=TEXTJOIN(", ",TRUE,IF('2020 Background Data'!$H$2:$H$301=DATE('2020 Calendar View'!$E$1,'2020 Calendar View'!$B3,'2020 Calendar View'!Z$2),'2020 Background Data'!$I$2:$I$301,""))}
That is working fine to list them. However, I have not yet been able to find a way to bring the color along with it when I join it into the comma separated list. I want the text to carry its color along with it so it turns red on the calendar as a quick indicator that we need to call that customer back. Anyone have thoughts?

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This will work in Excel 2016 (other versions have the same functionality but the menus may be slightly different):
Copy your numbers to the clipboard
In Excel, select the Home ribbon
Click the downward arrow under the Paste button (the leftmost icon on the ribbon).
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Click Next.
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Click Finish
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http://imgur.com/xhaHEMH - can't post images yet
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