I would like a cell to be color filled or formatted based on the value in the adjacent cell. For example, if cell D1= #NA then I want the font in C1 to be filled in red.I would like to compare entire range in column C and D for this. Is there any conditional formatting rules or VBA macro that can accomplish this?
To apply such a format to C3 based on the contents of D3:
Select C3
In Conditional Formatting click New Rule...
Select "Use a
formula to determine which cells to format"
For the formula enter
"=ISNA($D$3)"
Click the Format button to set up the format that gets
applied when the previous formula returns TRUE
Hope that helps
Very simply select the range you want in column C and just make a conditional format using an equation and use
=$D1=""
and change the format text color to what ever you want.
Conditional formatting would be easiest way to do this.
If under conditional formatting you select new rule and then "use a formula to determine which cells to format". A formula such as =$D$1="#na" and change the format to what you would like. If you click OK and make sure this applies to C1 and stop if true is selected.
This worked for me! If you would like to use vba then let me know.
Conditional Formatting can do this. Pick the "Use a formula to determine which cells to format", enter
=7=ERROR.TYPE(D1)
Set the red fill. Now copy & apply to entire column.
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I am trying to change the fill and font color of only A2 and B2 if E2 contains the string "departments" for example.
I have found formulas that highlight the whole row, but I only want select cells of the row while actually formatting with colors, and I can't quite get it right with conditional formatting.
Any help would be appreciated.
Use a rule based on the following formula:
=SEARCH("departments",$E1)>0
and apply it to columns A and B.
You can also simplify the formula to just =SEARCH("departments",$E1)
I want to apply a conditional formatting (CF) rule to a group of cells to individually colour them if their individual cell values are greater than a threshold (in this case >=5). To illustrate:
The top row shows how I want the bottom row to look. For the bottom row I cannot figure out how correctly format according to cell-specific formulae.
The problem is identifying a way to specify cell-specific CF formulas in a single operation for a group of cells - as you can by pasting/dragging normal cell formulas. I obviously don't want to have to manually specify the formula for each cell!
Grateful for assistance.
Select the rows or columns or range that you want to conditional format,
Enter the below formula in the formula bar in conditional format and choose a fill color,
=AND(A1>=5,ISNUMBER(A1))
If you are starting in row3, change the A1 to A3. The $ that you have in the formula makes it absolute. It should be relative.
You just select all required cells to format. Then go to conditional formatting.
Check what is the cell shown just before the formula bar (the single cell that represents the selected range, also called default cell) and use that cell in your formula without absolute reference. like B3>=5 or R3>=5
How can I get formula applied behind conditional Formatting for highlighting Cells?
Conditional Formatting is applied based on text in each cell of Test Result column(third column).
Formulas List:
Purpose is to reuse (copy paste) the formula in other sheets.
The formula is shown in your first screenshot. The dialog has the formula in the column "Rule applied (in order shown)". These rules use the out of the box settings to format cells based on their values, so the "formula" is not accessible for editing.
But the format can be copied to other cells very easily.
Here are the steps:
Select the cell with the conditional format and copy it
click the cell where you want to apply the same format
use Paste Special > Format to paste just the format to the selected cell
Edit: If you don't use the built-in conditional formats but instead select "Use a formula to determine ...", you can construct the formulas manually.
There is no automated way to convert the existing out-of-the-box rules to fomulas. You will need to use your human understanding of the logic and appy this to formulas. So, for example, if the selected cell is H3, you can us this formula
=H3="Fail"
and format the cell with red font and light red background. Note that there are no $ signs in the reference to the cell H3. If you copy that format to another cell, it will apply to that other current cell.
I am using the following formula in a conditional format in order to highlight every other row on my spreadsheet:
=MOD(ROW(),2)=0
This works fine, however it highlights all rows whether blank or not. I don't want to highlight blank rows.
Please could someone show me how to do this?
Select the range to apply the formatting to, starting at Row1 and HOME > Styles - Conditional Formatting, New Rule..., Use a formula to determine which cells to format and Format values where this formula is true::
=AND(ISEVEN(ROW()),A1<>"")
Format..., select choice of formatting, OK, OK.
This assumes you want to skip formatting a row if just the ColumnA cell in it is blank.
An alternative would be to stick with what you have but add another rule, giving it priority, just to test if the ColumnA cell is blank and then set "no formatting" for that.
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)