So far I tried using existing rule which will highlight empty cells.
Which will highlight empty cells only.
However, I want to highlight column before empty cell
Assuming your data starts in cell A2.
Select cell A2
On the Home tab ribbon, click on Conditional Formatting
Select "New Rule"
Select your rule type as "Use a formula to determine which cells to
format"
In the text box, enter =AND(A2<>"",A3="")
Click the format button
Click on the Fill tab and select your highlight color
Click OK until the windows close
Use the format Painter on the home ribbon to copy the conditional
formatting from cell A2 to any other cells you want to follow this
rule
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I have a hourly plan where time of employees' meetings automatically appears from an other sheet.
I need it to be marked with specific color according to meeting's lenght.
Ex.
"A1=0,5 then A1 is blue
if A1=1 then A1 and A2 is blue
if A1=1,5 then A1, A2, A3 is blue and etc."
I only find info how to mark specific cell using conditional formating or VBA, but don't know how to apply formula to the whole table
Conditional Formatting
Select the range where you want this applied, e.g. A1:A10, or A1:J10 if you want this to work in the other columns, too.
On the Home tab select Conditional Formatting > New Rule.
In the New Formatting window select Use formula to determine which cells to format.
In the text box below enter this formula:
=A$1/0.5>=ROW()
Press the Format button below and in the Format Cells window select the Fill tab. Select a color and press Ok 3 times.
I have two tab sheets. I have in the first tab sheet a cell (B21) with a the following conditional formatting code: =ISNUMBER(B21)..then the cell will turn green.
What I want is that cell A1 in the second tab sheet will act the same as cell B21 in the first tab sheet.
I can copy the cell and then paste it in the second tab sheet but then the conditional code in the A1 cell is =ISNUMBER(A1) but I want it to refer to tabsheet 2, which is =ISNUMBER(B21)
Anyone know how to do this?
Thanks,
Vincent
Go to the second tab and select Conditional Formatting, New Rule and select Use a formula to determine which cells to format.
Click the range selector button (to the right of the text box with the red arrow). Now select B21 on the first tab, reclick the range selector button, make your formatting changes and click OK.
In the picture below, you can see that the formula refers to B21 on Sheet 1, but is applied to A1 onSheet 2`.
I want to conditionally format cells in Excel. Is it possible to create a generic formula that does the following:
IF the value in column A of the given row = "A"
AND the value in the given cell is greater than .1
AND the value in the given cell is less than 1
THEN format the cell with a light grey background color
In the example below, I want the formula to apply to cells B1:K2, but I only want cells E1, I1 and K1 to be highlighted in grey.
Select B1:K[n]. B1 is the active cell.
Then, click Home > Conditional Formatting > New Rule.
In the New Formatting Rule dialog box, click Use a formula to
determine which cells to format.
Under Format values where this formula is true, type the formula:
=AND($A1="A",B1>0.1,B1<1)
Click Format.
In the Fill box, select your light gray color.
Click OK until the dialog boxes are closed.
Greetings
Axel
Tap F5 and when the GoTo dialog opens, type A:K (◄ just like that) into the Reference: box and click OK. You should have columns A through K selected with A1 as the Active Cell.
Create a new Conditional Formatting Rule using the Use a formula to determine which cells to format option and supply the following for Format values where this formula is true:
=AND($A1="A", A1>0.1, A1<1, ISODD(COLUMN(A:A)))
Click Format and select a light=grey Fill then click OK to accept the format and then OK again to create the new CF rule. Your results should resemble the following.
Edit: Revised from literal interpretation to subjective interpretation
Select cells E1:F2,I1:I2,K1:K2 (hold down Ctrl while selecting discontinuous range) so the conditional formatting will apply to them.
The cell K1 should have the focus, i.e. be highlighted with white background, while other selected cells are highlighted with dark background. Insert conditional formatting with following formula:
=($A1="A")*(K1>0.1)*(K1<1)
if cell a1 is equal to some text then i want to select the corresponding cell in the same row to be in bold and italic. for eg if there is text "james" in cell a1 then i want to make the other cell a2, containing an integer, in bold and italic. This has to be done for a selective range in the worksheet, so wherever there is james i need the corresponding cell to be bold and italic. Please help me out here.
Your Google term is conditional formatting.
did you try simple conditional formatting?
in 2007 :
Conditional Formatting --> new rule --> Use a formula to determine which cells to format
formula : =IF(A1="james",TRUE,FALSE)"
where "james" would of course better be replace by a reference to a cell.
Select cell b1
On the Home tab, in the Style group, click Conditional Formatting, click New Rule...
select "Use a formula to determine which cells to format"
Set the formula to =A1="james". Take Tom's advice and make "james" a cell reference.
Click the Format... button, select Font Style "Bold Italic" and click OK
Click Ok to close the New Formatting Rule dialog
you should still have cell b1 selected
On the Home tab, in the Style group, click Conditional Formatting, Manage Rules...
Find the rule you just created and change its "Applies to" from =$B$1 to =B1. This makes the "applies to" reference relative rather than fixed (that's what the $ is doing) in order for copy and paste to automagically change your formulas to the destination row/column.
click OK
Copy and paste cell b1 to the other cells in the b column.
I hope this helps!
I want to apply a conditional formatting to the entire sheet.
In particular I want to format a row by the value of its cell in a particular column so that if column F contains "something", the entire row is formatted (e.g. red background).
How can this be accomplished?
Select all cells and then click Conditional Formatting > New Rule. Select "Use a formula to determine which cells to format". In the rule description type:
=$F1="Value to check" (or if it's numeric, =$F1=12345)
Click the format button and set the fill to red. Click OK