I want to highlight all the cells containing a formula error or formulas
followed the below steps
Did a CTRL+A and selected all the cells
Home > Conditional Formatting > Use a formula to determine which cells to format
Applied the formula =OR(ISERROR(A1),ISFORMULA(A1))
Selected a fill colour and clicked on ok
Expectation: All the cells which is having a formula or error value like #N/A need to be selected.
Please let me know what i am doing wrong here
Formulas in conditional formatting work with reference to the active cell in the selection. In the example given below I have selected B2 to E6 with the active cell as C3 and then applied the conditional formatting.
In the example above in the selection B1 to E6 the active cell is C3. Now when you use =ISERROR(D4), it is effectively applying it to R[-1]C[-1] because you are checking the value in D4 according to the formula and applying it on the selected cell i.e. C3 as you can see in the image.
Thus if you now put #N/A in Cell D4, Cell C3 will become Orange
If instead the active cell in the selection was D4 instead of C3 then the conditional formatting would highlight all #N/A
If you want to understand clearly, try =ISERROR($D$4) and put a #N/A in D4, that will highlight all the cells B2:E6.
Else you can also go to
File>Options>Formulas and check R1C1 reference style
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The goal is to highlight value in Column A5 Green, if the values in both B5 and C5 have the value "Confirmed" then also have the same mythology for A6 - A19
I tried using if statements, but it was not working
Use AND:
=AND(B5="Confirmed",C5="Confirmed")
and apply this rule to range A5:A19.
I am trying to use conditional formatting in my merged cells. In the screenshot I merged B3:B5.
If a Cell contains the word "Apfel", I would like to format this cell and the following 3 cells (so B3 = "Apfel" ==> B3:E3 should be green).
If I try to use the conditional formatting rule [=$B3="Apfel"] an I select my desired area [Cell that contains "Apfel" ], it works. But If I merge B3 with B4 and B5, it only works for B3:E3 and not for B3:E5.
So I am trying to work with an OFFSET, but I get an Error message.
I tried [=OFFSET($C3,0,-1)="Apfel"], but it gives me a syntax error.
What am I doing wrong?
select everything from b3 to e9 and then conditional formatting new rule-
=$B3="apfel"
Try this.
I have a cell with a text, which is the place of an another cell that I want to highlight. Lets say that it is the F6 cell, and in it, it says 'C6'. Is there a way to use conditional formatting to highlight the 'C6' cell ? Any other cell can be inputted into the F6 cell and the formatting will highlight it, if it is in the Data range.
You could compare the address of the current cell to the contents of F6, either:
=ADDRESS(ROW(),COLUMN(),4)=$F$6
or
=SUBSTITUTE(CELL("address",B4),"$","")=$F$6
If you are happy to write $C$6 you could use CELL()
Define conditional formating on B4:D7 as =CELL("address",B4)=$F$6
=CELL("address",B4) will return the reference of that cell in the from of $COLUMN$ROW (e.g. $C$6 for the cell C6) and that you can then compare.
i want to write a formula in excel where it ignores the formula if the cell is not blank.
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In Jan '#P' column which is C11, we have numbers like 2,5,1 and some blank cells. I want to insert the below mentioned formula.
=(IF(C11=1,10%,IF(C11=2,20%,IF(C11=3,25%,IF(C11=4,30%,IF(C11=5,40%,IF(C11=6,50%,IF(C11=7,60%,IF(C11=8,70%,IF(C11=9,80%))))))))))
I want the formula to work only if the cells in column 'D11' which is %U is blank,
1) if D11 is blank, apply the formula that uses C11
2) If D11 is already present , ignore the formula.
I am also wondering if we change the color of the cell using formula. I want the cells to be highlighted in blue color while applying the above formula.
Any help please?
=if(D11="",(IF(C11=1,10%,IF(C11=2,20%,IF(C11=3,25%,IF(C11=4,30%,IF(C11=5,40%,IF(C11=6,50%,IF(C11=7,60%,IF(C11=8,70%,IF(C11=9,80%)))))))))),"")
you cant highlight cell using formula. you can use conditional formatting.
Column A has a number 1-10. Column B has a string I want to highlight with conditional formatting. How do I make it so that if the number in Column A is greater than 7, the cell in the same row in Column B will automatically turn blue?
I use the conditional formatting tool for cell B1 such that, in the "Use a formula to determine which cells to format" option, I have ="IF($A1 > 7)", then fill the cell with blue.
But, as I drag/autofill down, the 1 in $A1 does not become A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, etc. as I want it to. What am I doing wrong?
Change the formula to:
=$A1 > 7
And take a look at my yoursumbuddy post, which explains why you don't need IFs in Conditional Formatting:
Select B1, then column B (This should make all the cells bluish except the cell B1, which is said to be the 'active' cell).
Open up conditional formatting and use the formula:
=IF($A1 > 7, 1)
You need to at least specify the value if true and there's no need to drag the conditional formatting down.