I have come here seeking the help of the smarter programers. I am attempting to create a date controlled document for work. In short, I created formulas for contact dates. All linked to the Today() function for my computer date. Anyone contacted < 30 days appears green, >30 but <45 days its yellow and >45 days its red. I also included some other functions like x= black (remove from list) and OL = onlist so appear blue. I used to conditional formatting options. I will show my formulas as they run from B6 to B144 (=$B$6:$B$144) in the spreadsheet and their order.
Cell value= X
This is the black format.
Cell value= OL
This is the blue format.
Formula=AND(B6 <=TODAY()-30, B6 >TODAY()-45)
This is the yellow format.
Formula=B6<=Today()-45
This is the red format
Formula=B6 > Today()-30
This is the green format.
The problem is I am trying to get cells without a date to show as blank and not red. For some reason the blank cells appear red. I have tried to use the
Formula=ISBLANK(B6) to format as no fill cell. The cell is not empty but contains the above formulas. Surely there is a code to make cells without texts but with formulas appear blank. Excel shows as clear but when I upload to Google documents, the empty cells appear red. Any help is appreciated.
You can probably use
=""
as your condition for a 'blank' cell that contains a formula. Alternatively you could change your condition for red to be
AND(B6<=TODAY()-45, B6>0)
That might help
You need to click "Stop If True" for the rule for blank cells, then move that rule to the top of the list.
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I have an issue with Excel 2013. The conditional formatting just will not work. I've got a VLOOKUP which pulls data from another worksheet. Then I want to use conditional formatting on that data. The conditions are =$N$3>30 to color the cell red and =$N$3<30 to color the cell green. It just stays permanently red or permanently green. I've tried every solution and possible work around I can think of and nothing works.
Does any one have any suggestions?
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Value in your N3 (or in column N), is a text thus color is red. Add double dash (--) to your VLookup function to convert the result to number. Your formula should be =IFERROR(--VLOOKUP(A3,... (complete the formula).
I'v attached a screenshot to show what I'd like to ask for. Since I am obviously having issues to word it properly.
I got this sheet to track project hours. It's a template also for future projects. So I built it with a dynamic start month and year.
In order to avoid the tedious formatting work in future I've set up several conditional formattings.
I now please need an idea how to change the color alternating, based on the color of the previous month. In the screenshot you see June and July have different cell colors, which I obv did manually; thats what I'd like to solve dynamically
I can distinguish where the start and the stop of one month is by filling each cell of the headline with the value based on the date. I though I could simply hide it then when formatting the textcolor same with the bg color. Still same problem: how do I check which color to use?!
I think I totally lost track - anyone help please? :)
Thanks & BR
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With real dates in Row2 (formatted mmm if you wish), fill as much of Row2 as relevant with one 'standard' fill colour, select Row2, clear any CF from it and then HOME > Styles - Conditional Formatting, New Rule..., Use a formula to determine which cells to format and Format values where this formula is true::
=ISEVEN(MONTH(A2))
Format..., select a different Fill, OK, OK.
I have been trying to change the color of certain cells on my WS that fall outside of an acceptable range. The statement I've been trying to use is,
IF(OR('cell'>1.3,'cell'<2.5),'turn red','do nothing')
In english, "If a cell is less than 1.3 or greater than 2.5 turn red, else do nothing." I cannot find a resource that guides me to how I can get the cells to change colors. I also have been unsuccessful in creating a statement in the Conditional Formatting tab that satisfies my goal. I feel this should be simple, but for some reason cannot figure it out. Does anyone know if this is possible, and if so how to do it?
EDIT: Also, I have different ranges based on another cell on the spreadsheet. I need this also taken into consideration
Select the columns that you want to format
Click Conditional format --> new rule
Select "Use a formula to determine which cells to format"
In the formula bar enter the formula =AND(A1>1.3,A1<2.5)
Choose the fill color as red and press OK
am confused with your formula and your english version. If its the other way, then use the formula =OR(A1<1.3,A1>2.5)
I have an excel sheet where I'm trying to use conditional formatting but it doesn't seem to work as I would like it to.
It seems as though any formula won't work as I don't want the cell to match TBC, but contain it.
In short, I am looking for this:
If D2 Contains "TBC" then highlight the whole row
I've tried around 10 suggestions through Google and also Stack Overflow but it seems as thou
Note: Each cell will have different values, i.e. D2 has "1 screenshot TBC" and D3 has "5 screenshots TBC". As they will all have different values but all contain the abbreviation "TBC" I am trying to search for that word.
Any help or advice that could be offered will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance for your time! :)
Amandip
Select your entire sheet and HOME > Styles - Conditional Formatting, New Rule..., Use a formula to determine which cells to format and Format values where this formula is true::
=FIND("TBC",$D1)
Format..., select colour Fill (highlight) of your choice, OK, OK.
Change FIND to SEARCH if you want this case insensitive.
This will trigger for the likes of ATBCX.
I am searching through 1000's of lines of data and I'm looking for specific info in these cells and if it appears id like the end cell to have a tick in or turn red and ect. for easy distinguish.
So in short what I am looking for would be
All Selected cells
if (all cell a-z Contain "Admin"){
Tick cell AA
}
You should check for Admin inside a concatenation of the cells A1:Z1. This concatenation is achieved via A1&B1&C1&...&X1&Y1&Z1. So, for example, in cell AA1, enter
=IF(ISERROR(FIND("Admin",A1&B1&C1&...&X1&Y1&Z1)),"not found","found")
where you replace ... with the remaining cells in the range.
I have worked out a solution to the range issue instead of highlighting all of the cells
=IF(ISERROR(HLOOKUP("admin",A5:G5,1)),"NOT FOUND","FOUND")
Hope this helps anyone else out there.
One way of doing this is as follows. In the cell you want the indicator have the following code, and assuming that you are looking for the value a - replace "a" with the value you are looking for.
=COUNTIF(D8:I8,"a")
You can then use conditional formating that says if the cell is > 0 then turn it red, or have an adjacent field that has a conditional format to put in a traffic light, tick mark, whatever and hide the previous field.
Hope this helps