I have 2 columns, A and B. How can I set conditional formatting so that when a cell in column A is highlighted RED, then the corresponding cell automatically updates to "RED" and the cell is highlighted in red? How can I do this without VBA?
Color is not data. There is no way to do this without VBA. Manually changing a cell's color does not even trigger a VBA event, so even with VBA this will be a challenge.
Color is not data. You can use the Get.Cell technique as discussed in this thread but it has many flaws.
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I've got a bit of an oddball question, and I looked pretty hard to find an answer to no success so apologies in advance if this has already been answered.
Anyways, I have an excel spreadsheet that has every column manually set to a specific color. Now I want to alternate the hues between rows while maintaining the manually-set color. So for example, let's say column A is red and column B is blue. I would want A1 to be dark-red, B1 to be dark-blue. A2 would be light-red, B2 would be light-blue. And so on and so forth alternating until the end of the sheet.
I've thought about sampling the previous cells color and setting the next cells color based on that, but I don't know of any functions that would get me there.
I've looked at macros, and while I can sample a cell's color I cannot figure out how to set it.
I'm currently building the sheet in excel and would like to import it to google sheets when I am complete, so having the spreadsheet formulas or macros be compatible would be great. That being said, I can keep it in excel if I have to so that isn't a must.
Any help would be much appreciated!
you need to set up 4 conditional formatting rules with:
=ISODD(ROW())
=ISEVEN(ROW())
Also, I would suggest you to check this addon with which you can control colors easily just by hex code (#ffda56) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/team-color
TeamColor is a Google Spreadsheet add-on for color management. Type a color code in Hex into a cell. Its background color will change to that color code. This is very useful for sharing color palette with teammates in developing apps, websites and anything else colorful.
You can do it with conditional formatting by selecting the column and then use a custom formula conditional format and enter =isodd(row()) then select your dark hue. Add another conditonal format and enter =iseven(row()) and select your lighter colour.
This method breaksdown when using a filter but you can create a column to count visible rows and then base your conditional formatting formula on that column. Bit more complicated but useful if you need to filter.
Another Sheets option is to apply Alternating colours... (under Format) but this would mean setting the two (or three if including a header of a different hue) colours separately for each column.
Is there a way in MS Excel 2007 where I can hide a row in excel that contains a specific value? For example if cell B1 contains number 6, the entire 1st row will be hidden.
NOT with formula.
Formulae don't do that sort of thing. With formulae about the closest to your desired result might be to apply conditional formatting to 'hide' the contents of the entire 1st row - by blending their font colour into that of the text background, or 'redact' - if say black font then applying black fill.
Try VBA.
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 noticed that if I format (font, color, etc.) a certain number of cells in a row or in a column, as soon as I type text in adjacent cells in the same row or column formatting is automatically applied to the added cell. How can this automatic behavior be stopped? I'm formatting cells programmatically and style/color if often defined conditionally, it is not simply to please the eye or to make data more readable and excel's automatic formatting is setting formatting/color without knowledge of the underlying logic. Formatting is not being set via formulas but via C# code.
This is controlled by a setting of the Excel Application Object:
YourExcelObjectReference.Application.ExtendList = False
I have some cells with some different filling colors.I want to do the following thing: I want to use those colors in conditional formatting rules, so when I change the color of a cell, the conditional formatting color will change too.
Like in this image
In the screenshot above, there is a zone called "Legendă". So when I change the color of a cell there, the others cells with the same color will change too. The other cells have conditional formatting rule.
In general, formatting is not considered source data in Excel. The workaround, then, is to put the information in a new column.
Say you were formatting column B and wanted those colors to modify formatting elsewhere. The idea is to create another column and add your data there, and then create a conditional formatting formula for column B (and any other columns) that refers to your new data. This way, you can get as many columns as you want to respond appropriately.