I have a spreadsheet in which each row of column F has a specific date. I want the sheet to highlight the row which corresponds to the current date (today). Anyone knows how to do this?
You can use the conditional formatting formula:
=$F1=Today()
and apply to the range, say,
=$A$1:$F$10
Note: Using TODAY() means that when you open the sheet tomorrow, or any other day, it's going to see if the cell is equal to that day. To make it literally today, you can do:
=$F1=DATE(2018,01,25)
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I have two columns. 1st column is an expected completion date (ECD). 2nd column is a actual completion date (ACD), which starts out blank. I want the ECD to turn red if its date is in the past...easy. I want the ECD to turn back to white if there is an ACD filled in.
To me the formula would be: =AND(A3:A5 < TODAY(), B3:B5 IS NOT BLANK) But that formula is not allowed.
Can someone please help?
When you setup conditional formatting you have to be very careful about how you specify things. When setting up your formulas you only reference the 1st row of your AppliesTo range, excel will adjust the references as it moves down the range. Of course this will be different if you are referencing cells that are not in your first row. If referencing constants remember to use the $ for the rows/columns that don't change.
In this specific case the formula you want is: =AND(A3<(TODAY()),B3=0,A3<>0)
I have a table with a weekly schedule. Row 2 shows the dates in the week, and row 1 shows the corresponding week day: =TEXT(B2;"dddd"), =TEXT(C2;"dddd") etc.
I have a rule that highlights the date if it is today, using the "built-in" condition.
I want the cell above (with the week day) to have the same formatting. How do I accomplish this?
See the image below in explanation of my comment above.. Even if the row 1 is text, if you select both rows in "Applies to" option, it will apply. Note that the column in relative(not fixed by $) in the formula reference.
Looking for a way to highlight Current Day of any date to be highlighted.
here is a little example, different dates,i just want to highlight todays date (its 26) so 26 should highlight no matter whats the month is.
little effort i made.. but it doesn't work
You can use =DAY() to get the current day number back and =TODAY() to get today's date.
So, in your case, your conditional formatting formula in cell A1 would be DAY(A1)=DAY(TODAY()), then you can copy and paste the formatting down.
I have an Excel spreadsheet that has sections broken out by month. The headers are individual month names, not dates. Each of these is color-coded to match the month. I have a single cell set aside to display the current month (using the TODAY function). I want to be able to style the cell depending on which month of the year it is.
I set 12 conditional formatting rules to check the cell against. I started out by using ="November" (as an example), but it doesn't seem to equate (TODAY()) with the word "November," so the rule doesn't apply. Either I need a new formula for the cell or there's some formula I have to use in the conditional formatting to get it to recognize the similarity between a date-formatted cell and a text-formatted cell.
Any ideas?
Assuming the cell is in A2, I would just change your conditional formatting formula to something like
=MONTH(A2)=11
TODAY() actually saves the Excel date value (e.g. 42695 for today) but using the MONTH() function will return the month number.
You could also alter the TODAY() formula to be something like
=TEXT(TODAY(),"mmmm")
That will convert the visible date to just show the month name and should still work for your original conditional formatting formula.
Column A consists of a series of dates extending from today into the future.
Columns B-E are other values corresponding to those dates.
Initially the first three rows were blank. Then I used the function TODAY() to obtain today's date and put that in cell A1. Today's date matches a value in cell A91. I now want the values in B1-E1 to match the values in B91-E91.
How can I go about doing that? It needs to be done with reference to cell A1 because I want it to update whenever the spreadsheet is opened. Thus I can't just type =B91 in B1.
Here's what it looks like
I am working in Google Spreadsheets but I suspect an answer related to Microsoft Excel would probably work here too.
The VLOOKUP function works, for example
=VLOOKUP(A1,$A$3:$E$1000,2,FALSE)