I use the conditional formatting to change the cell color to red if the number was out of this range (55-83), my problem is that I don't want the cell to stay red until I fill it with the correct number , I want the cell to stay clear until I fill it with the wrong number.
You should be able to use the following formula in your conditional format:
=AND(CELL<>"",OR(CELL<55,CELL>83))
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How to change one cell fill color based on the text of the previous cell.
I know that I need to use conditional formatting along with using a formula to determine which cell to format, but I just can't figure out what formula to use.
Depends on the condition, you can use Conditional Formatting on the Home Tab and set a rule
under Use a formula to determine which cells to format there you can specify if for example =A1>5 Format it to Fill Green then select to what cells you want this rule to be applied.
You can find more information here: How to create rules with Conditional Formatting.
Is it possible to use conditional formatting to color a cell if the colors of two other cells match each other?
There is no formula that can read what color a cell is. Color is not data. don't use cell fill as metadata. Instead, use conditional formatting with logic that can be applied further down the calculation chain.
So, instead of coloring cells yellow manually and then trying to figure out a way to sum all cells where the next one over is yellow, use conditional formatting to set the cell yellow based on a status or value in another, corresponding cell. Then you can use that status or value in the corresponding cell to determine if the cell should be included in a further calculation like a conditional sum.
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
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.
I'm trying to fill in the color of a cell based on specific text from another cell. For ex. if the cell I'm trying to fill in with the color red is A1 based on the text "Red" in cell B1 which has the words Red Rock in the cell how can I fill in A1 with the color red? I know the conditional formatting formula for filling in a cell based on an exact word would be Rule $A1="Red" Applies to =$B$1, but this does not work if the cell contains anything more than Red, which in this case would be Red Rock.
Let me know if what I'm trying to do makes sense or is even possible.
Thanks
Select the cell to format (example A1)
In New Formatting Rule dialog box, choose "use formula to determine which cells to format" and try to use the following:
=SEARCH("red",$B$1)
Try using search in the conditional fomating
Conditional Formating --> Use formula to determine which cells to format
Key-in this in the formula bar and select red color
=ISNUMBER(SEARCH("RED",B1))