Condtional formatting

Hello everyone,

I'm looking for a condtional formatting formula based on 2 conditions. The
conditions are based on a text that are in 2 different cells in the same row.
For example: if A1 contains "Start" and A2 contains "Operation" I want row 1
green; if if A1 contains "Stop" and A2 contains "Operation" I want row 1 red.
A1 and A2 contain drop down list. All other combinations should give the
rows blue.
This last condition is a normal cell format. At least 15 columns in the
speadsheet.

Has someone an idea solve the problem?
Thank you for any suggestion

One way:

Select Row 1 and enter

CF1: Formula is =AND($A1="Start",$A2="Operation")
Format1: Green

CF2: Formula is =AND($A1="Stop",$A2="Operation")
Format2: Red

CF3: Formula is =COUNTA($A1:$A2)=2
Format3: Blue

If the last condition is really a normal cell format, disregard it and
format it directly as blue.

Note that you said you conditions were "based on a text that are in 2
different cells in the same row". However, your examples were for 2
cells in the same column and different rows. The above formulae are
consistent with your examples.




In article ,
68magnolia71 wrote:

I'm looking for a condtional formatting formula based on 2 conditions. The
conditions are based on a text that are in 2 different cells in the same row.
For example: if A1 contains "Start" and A2 contains "Operation" I want row 1
green; if if A1 contains "Stop" and A2 contains "Operation" I want row 1 red.
A1 and A2 contain drop down list. All other combinations should give the
rows blue.
This last condition is a normal cell format. At least 15 columns in the
speadsheet.

Has someone an idea solve the problem?
Thank you for any suggestion

Hello afain JE,

Thiese formulas also worked fine, I used the third possibility for another
combination of 3 two words. I dare submit another problem:
In A1 I have a text with concatenated parts with at the left the date and at
right the shift. "15 April 05 Shift M " for example. The date need be text
for concatanation. I want the format changed one day in the week. I wrote
following conditional formatting: =weekday(left($A1;8))=4 -- Format Blue.
Copied it down through row 93 ( 31 times 3).It didn't work.
=weekday(today())=4 -- Format Blue would work. Where is the problem?

Thank you.

68magnolia71



"JE McGimpsey" wrote:

One way:

Select Row 1 and enter

CF1: Formula is =AND($A1="Start",$A2="Operation")
Format1: Green

CF2: Formula is =AND($A1="Stop",$A2="Operation")
Format2: Red

CF3: Formula is =COUNTA($A1:$A2)=2
Format3: Blue

If the last condition is really a normal cell format, disregard it and
format it directly as blue.

Note that you said you conditions were "based on a text that are in 2
different cells in the same row". However, your examples were for 2
cells in the same column and different rows. The above formulae are
consistent with your examples.




In article ,
68magnolia71 wrote:

I'm looking for a condtional formatting formula based on 2 conditions. The
conditions are based on a text that are in 2 different cells in the same row.
For example: if A1 contains "Start" and A2 contains "Operation" I want row 1
green; if if A1 contains "Stop" and A2 contains "Operation" I want row 1 red.
A1 and A2 contain drop down list. All other combinations should give the
rows blue.
This last condition is a normal cell format. At least 15 columns in the
speadsheet.

Has someone an idea solve the problem?
Thank you for any suggestion