I have a spreadsheet that has a 7000 rows. My sheet does have a header row. Column G is not supposed to have any cell with a value greater then 1000. I want to highlight red the cells with these "bad values". This I accomplished with the conditional formatting cell value greater then 1000 and applied it to G2:G10000. even though I would love to apply this G:G, so that I don't limit this to just 10,000 rows (there may be rows ith future then the current 7,000).
My bigger issue is that to highlight that column G has a "bad" cell(s) I would lime to highlight all of column G.
I tried using a conditional formatting formula = $G2>1000 and applied it to G:G it only highlighted the cell. I tried = $A2>1000 and applied it to G:G, It highlighted the entire column always even when the condition wasn't met.
What do I do?
You can accomplish this with a COUNTIF formula. I mis-read and did this for a value greater than or equal 10,000. Take out one of my ZEROs in the equation!
As the solution stands, if any cell in column G exceeds (or equals) 10,000, the entire column will highlight.
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I've looked at all the tutorials on how to do this but just cant get it to work, I want to highlight the cell in column A if greater than or equal to the adjacent cell in column B, and repeat this all the way down, the formula I have is:
=A2>=B2 Applies to: =$A:$A
It seems to highlight the cells randomly and incorrectly.
I'm trying to use conditional formatting to highlight the lowest value in each row green as long as the unmerged cell above it does not read "N" (as I want that to disqualify the value in that case.) If the lowest value has the "N" (for No) above, I need to have the next lowest value highlighted green that doesn't have "N" listed. I have conditional formatting to highlight a value red if "N" is selected/entered. In my screenshot, the value in cell F11 is the lowest, but because it has an "N" above, the value in cell D11 should highlight green (with F11 staying red- If I change that N to Y, the cell turns green.)
Each item's "row" is made of two rows. On the upper row, the cells are unmerged. On the lower row, both cells are merged. The range of columns that I want to evaluate is D:CY (with CX being the last for the lower row since it has merged cells.)
Here is where I'm at with the custom formula:
=D11=IF(E10="N",SMALL($D11:$CX11,2),MIN($D11:$CX11))
I will be using this on versions as old as Excel 2013, in case that affects code support. I want to apply this to a range or rows below so I'm not sure if I've got my absolute $ addressing correct. The columns won't change except that E10 since I'd then want it to move down the row...
Perhaps a formula like this for your conditional formatting, based on COUNTIFS with staggered ranges to identify the lowest cell with a Y one row above and one column to the right:
=AND(D11<>"",E10<>"N",COUNTIFS($D11:$H11,"<"&D11,$E10:$I10,"Y")=0)
Change the H to CX and the I to CY to apply to your range.
I have a 13x13 table of data on a worksheet that is comprised of links to another sheet.
For example the first row of 13 looks like:
=Sheet1!R7 =Sheet1!R20 =Sheet1!R21 =Sheet1!R22 =Sheet1!R23 =Sheet1!R24 =Sheet1!R25 =Sheet1!R26 =Sheet1!R27 =Sheet1!R28 =Sheet1!R29 =Sheet1!R30 =Sheet1!R31
I want to do conditional formatting over the entire table for when data from column R and column C of the same row are equal and >0.
For example;
When Sheet1!R7 is equal to Sheet1!C7 and >0, color the sheet 2 table (that has the link) red.
When Sheet1!R20 is equal to Sheet1!C20 and >0, color the sheet 2 table red and so on.
I would also like to repeat the process with a different colored fill if R == L and >0 but I can just use the same formula once I know how.
My attempt was =AND(Sheet1!R7=Sheet1!C7,Sheet1!C7>0).
This works for the single cell, but I'd like a way to do the whole table at once.
Any help is appreciated, thanks.
EDIT for clairty:
*I'm sure I'm not explaining it too well.
To put it simply, I have 2 columns of numbers, let's say A1:A169 and B1:B169.
I want to take the larger number from A and B for each row (A10 vs B10 etc, I used MAX function for this) and dump the output in column C.
I then aim to color code column C based on whether the number comes from column A or B. Red for A, yellow for B (no color for <0).
So far I have achieved all of this, I have the data sitting in a column color coded.
My problem comes in that I want to have the 169 numbers in column C in a more readable format, I.E. in a 13x13 grid table. I don't know how to do this and keep the color coding!*
I suppose I can offer you some possible solution.
Lets say you have sheet1 and sheet2. In sheet2, you have links to
sheet1 as you mentioned. And my understanding is that you want to color
the sheet2 (the entire table?) as red if a certain condition is met.
This is how it might be done.
In sheet 2, create a formula for a cell which reflects your condition. Lets say that is =IF(Sheet1!A1="foo", 1, 0). You can add your AND conditions in that if statement. So that cell will contain 1 if the condition is met and 0 if not met.
Select the range of cells in sheet2. Click conditional formatting. Select "use a formula to determine which cells to format". Enter the condition for the calculated value in sheet2. For example, in sheet2, my cell G1 is the result of the formula =IF(Sheet1!A1="foo", 1, 0). So if the value of G1 is 1 then I want to color the range Red.
So in essense, we are using a formula to calculate the value of a cell and using that value
as a condition to format a range of cells in Sheet2.
Hope this helps.
I'm wondering how to use conditional formatting in order to highlight specific cells in a column that return an error message in another column after applying a function to it.
eg) Column 1 has data 1 ... n
Column 2 has data f(1) ... f(n); f(n) being a function that sometimes returns errors.
I want to color the cells in Column 1 that return the error in column 2. How would you do this? Thanks!
You can use a simple ISERROR().
Let's say that column 1 is A and column 2 is B.
Select cell A1 and then select the whole column. Cell A1 should be slightly less dark than the other cells (it's the active cell in the selected range). Once you have this, go to conditional formatting and under 'New rule' and 'Use a formula to determine which cells to highight', put the formula:
=ISERROR(B1)
Pick a formatting (e.g. Fill and yellow) and click OK. That should highlight the cells for which column B has errors.
I'm fairly new to Excel and so not very experienced, but I'm trying to get an entire row to highlight red based on 2 other cells, using conditional formatting. The requirements are for the corresponding M cell in the row to have the value 'N' and for the corresponding E cell to have a past date value '<*NOW'.
I've tried a formula based on an answer for multiple conditions:
=AND(M="(N)";E<*NOW)
A formula for formatting an entire row:
=INDIRECT("m"&ROW())="N",("e"&ROW())E<*NOW
And combining the two:
=AND=INDIRECT("m"&ROW())="N",=INDIRECT("e"&ROW())E<*NOW)
(ignore all the asterisks its the only way i could get the NOW to appear)
None of these are working, please help!
Assuming your data starts at row 2 then select all rows, e.g. 2 to 100 and then apply the condition for row 2, i.e. use this formula
=AND($M2="N",$E2<TODAY())
That will now apply to the whole range. The $ signs make it format the whole row