I want to use conditional formatting to highlight consecutive cells in a column if they are populated.
If there is only once cell that is populated followed by a blank row, I do not want to highlight that row.
Which formula should I use.
Select entire column and apply conditional formatting with formula: =COUNTBLANK(A1:A2)=0:
Result:
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I am trying to show that a cell must be filled in. I want to use conditional formatting to highlight the cell isn't filled out using conditional formatting. Based on an EMPTY spreadsheet (gets filled in weekly by row, so I don't want a bunch of red cells until a line is filled in). I want a cell in column I to turn red when either columns "B:H" have text. Then if the person fills out a cell in column I the coloring goes away. I have tried =AND(ISTEXT(B#),ISNONTEXT(I#)), but this means that when a different row in column B is filled out the conditional formatting doesn't work. I then tried to individually put the condition formatting in, but it only works on the first 2 rows. I also tried =AND(ISTEXT($B#),ISNONTEXT($I#)) to show that it is based on the column, that also didn't work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Assuming B:H are empty. You can use an AND formula looking at COUNTA (of B:H) combined with ISBLANK (column I).
Select range I2:I4 and input this formula into your Conditional Format Rule:
=AND(COUNTA(B2:H2)>=1,ISBLANK(I2))
Then change your conditional format fill as RED.
Output:
I have column G with some of the cells (not all cells) which contain dates. Now I need to use conditional formatting =($G1-TODAY())<0
The formula is working correct by highlighting in red the dates which are over-due. The issue that I'm having is that even cells which contain test or which are blank are being highlighted in red.
Is there a ways to only make the formula effective for cells which contain dates?
Your conditional format can test for text in cells or blank cells like this:
=AND(NOT(OR(ISTEXT(G1),ISBLANK(G1))),G1<TODAY())
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 making a leave Planner which highlight the calendar as per the dates
using these formulas
=IF(B6="",FALSE,SUMPRODUCT((B6>=INDIRECT("Table1[Start]"))*(B6<=INDIRECT("Table1[End]"))))
=IF(B6="",FALSE,SUMPRODUCT((B6>=INDIRECT("Table1[SD1]"))*(B6<=INDIRECT("Table1[ED1]"))))
I want to apply this formula on same row not on columns how i can give range of Rows or range of cells containing start dates and end dates so same color highlight for one row and other color for other row
The formulas would be:
=OR(SUMPRODUCT((B6<>"")*("abc"=INDIRECT("Table1[Names]"))*(B6>=INDIRECT("Table1[Start]"))*(B6<=INDIRECT("Table1[End]"))),SUMPRODUCT((B6<>"")*("abc"=INDIRECT("Table1[Names]"))*(B6>=INDIRECT("Table1[SD1]"))*(B6<=INDIRECT("Table1[ED1]"))),SUMPRODUCT((B6<>"")*("abc"=INDIRECT("Table1[Names]"))*(B6>=INDIRECT("Table1[SD1]"))*(B6<=INDIRECT("Table1[ED1]"))))
As you can see you will need to have a different rule for each name. And change the name.
I want to highlight cells in column A (using the conditional formatting tool) if the cell's corresponding row contains the letter z anywhere within that row. I want to do this so I can sort data to the top if it is highlighted in column A.
I'm using the formula:
=COUNTIF($A1:$AA1,"*z*")
But I don't want to highlight the entire row, just the corresponding cell in column A for that row.
What is the formula to do this?
Select ColumnA then HOME > Styles - Conditional Formatting, New Rule..., Use a formula to determine which cells to format and Format values where this formula is true::
=COUNTIF($A1:$AA1,"*z*")>0
Format..., select highlighting OK, OK.
This will apply only to Column A (because of the selection).
This seemed to work for me when testing with a 3x3 cell table:
Highlight A1:A3
Conditional Formatting>New Rule>Use a formula to determine which cells to format
Formula:
=COUNTIF($B1:$C1,"z")
Then only cells in A were highlighted.
"I want to do this so I can sort data to the top if it is highlighted
in column A."
Ok, first of all, you don't need to use conditional formatting to sort. Second of all you wouldn't want to reference A1 in your formula =COUNTIF($A1:$AA1,"z") - it is a circular reference and any formula you put in column A would not return "z" anyways because you are using it for your COUNTIF formula.
The formula you want to use is:
=IF(COUNTIF($B1:$AA1,"z")>0,1,0)
If you want to look for any row that contains a z anywhere in a string you would want to do a wildcard countif:
=IF(COUNTIF($B1:$AA1,"*z")>0,1,0)
Then you can just sort on column A for all your data - high to low.
Basically you have demonstrated a basic misunderstanding of how to sort in excel(no offense). This should help you. Good Luck.