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formatting of row depending on cell value
Hello,
I would like to accomplish the following: If a cell in Column A corresponds to a certain date, I would like to have the row that cell is located on to be formatted according to my wishes, in this case, a different fill colour (non-white) and a different text colour (non-black). Is this possible and if so, how? Thanks. |
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formatting of row depending on cell value
Redbeard,
This is what I came up with: If you can add a helper column. Then in the first cell in the row - Add conditional formatting Condition 1 "Formula Is" "=$A$3=$B$3" Select "Format" button, "Font" tab select "Color:" select desired color of text. "Patterns" tab select the desired color of cell. In the above example, "$B$3" is my helper column. It could be next to your A column, or at the other end. Edit it accoding to your spreadsheet. hth "RedBeard" wrote: Hello, I would like to accomplish the following: If a cell in Column A corresponds to a certain date, I would like to have the row that cell is located on to be formatted according to my wishes, in this case, a different fill colour (non-white) and a different text colour (non-black). Is this possible and if so, how? Thanks. . |
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formatting of row depending on cell value
Select the rows, not just single cells to format.
Conditional FormatFormula is: =$A1=DATEVALUE("12/25/2009") Format to a pattern and OK your way out. December 25th row will be colored. Depends upon your short date format in Windows settings. Mine is mm/dd/yyyy.............yours may be dd/mm/yyyy Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:45:01 -0800 (PST), RedBeard wrote: Hello, I would like to accomplish the following: If a cell in Column A corresponds to a certain date, I would like to have the row that cell is located on to be formatted according to my wishes, in this case, a different fill colour (non-white) and a different text colour (non-black). Is this possible and if so, how? Thanks. |
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formatting of row depending on cell value
On Nov 17, 7:08*pm, Gord Dibben gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote:
Select the rows, not just single cells to format. Conditional FormatFormula is: *=$A1=DATEVALUE("12/25/2009") Format to a pattern and OK your way out. December 25th row will be colored. Depends upon your short date format in Windows settings. Mine is mm/dd/yyyy.............yours may be dd/mm/yyyy Gord Dibben *MS Excel MVP On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:45:01 -0800 (PST), RedBeard wrote: Hello, I would like to accomplish the following: If a cell in Column A corresponds to a certain date, I would like to have the row that cell is located on to be formatted according to my wishes, in this case, a different fill colour (non-white) and a different text colour (non-black). Is this possible and if so, how? Thanks. Gord, Thank you for your reply, however, it doesn't seem to be working. I have my dates in this format: 2009-12-31 I tried changing the DATEVALUE to this, but it doesn't trigger. I looked at the help file and it states that it has to be in either mm/dd/yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy, however, this is not an option for me. Any ideas? |
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formatting of row depending on cell value
On Nov 18, 12:33*pm, RedBeard wrote:
On Nov 17, 7:08*pm, Gord Dibben gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote: Select the rows, not just single cells to format. Conditional FormatFormula is: *=$A1=DATEVALUE("12/25/2009") Format to a pattern and OK your way out. December 25th row will be colored. Depends upon your short date format in Windows settings. Mine is mm/dd/yyyy.............yours may be dd/mm/yyyy Gord Dibben *MS Excel MVP On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:45:01 -0800 (PST), RedBeard wrote: Hello, I would like to accomplish the following: If a cell in Column A corresponds to a certain date, I would like to have the row that cell is located on to be formatted according to my wishes, in this case, a different fill colour (non-white) and a different text colour (non-black). Is this possible and if so, how? Thanks. Gord, Thank you for your reply, however, it doesn't seem to be working. I have my dates in this format: *2009-12-31 I tried changing the DATEVALUE to this, but it doesn't trigger. I looked at the help file and it states that it has to be in either mm/dd/yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy, however, this is not an option for me. Any ideas? Addendum, I got it working. However, an additional question, how do I combine multiple dates in the same formula? |
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formatting of row depending on cell value
Dates formatted as 2009-12-31 are just that........formatted dates.
The underlying value will still be what your short date is in Regional Settings in Windows. The formula is: =$A1=DATEVALUE("12/25/2009") works for me in Excel 2003 and 2007 because my short date is mm/dd/yyyy Are your dates maybe simply text and not real dates? In that case, either convert to real dates or look for the text "2009-12-31" without the DATEVALUE Gord On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:33:12 -0800 (PST), RedBeard wrote: On Nov 17, 7:08*pm, Gord Dibben gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote: Select the rows, not just single cells to format. Conditional FormatFormula is: *=$A1=DATEVALUE("12/25/2009") Format to a pattern and OK your way out. December 25th row will be colored. Depends upon your short date format in Windows settings. Mine is mm/dd/yyyy.............yours may be dd/mm/yyyy Gord Dibben *MS Excel MVP On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:45:01 -0800 (PST), RedBeard wrote: Hello, I would like to accomplish the following: If a cell in Column A corresponds to a certain date, I would like to have the row that cell is located on to be formatted according to my wishes, in this case, a different fill colour (non-white) and a different text colour (non-black). Is this possible and if so, how? Thanks. Gord, Thank you for your reply, however, it doesn't seem to be working. I have my dates in this format: 2009-12-31 I tried changing the DATEVALUE to this, but it doesn't trigger. I looked at the help file and it states that it has to be in either mm/dd/yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy, however, this is not an option for me. Any ideas? |
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formatting of row depending on cell value
Not sure what you mean.
Do you mean for the CFFormula is:? Please give an example. Gord On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:55:39 -0800 (PST), RedBeard wrote: Addendum, I got it working. However, an additional question, how do I combine multiple dates in the same formula? |
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formatting of row depending on cell value
On Nov 18, 6:27*pm, Gord Dibben gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote:
Not sure what you mean. Do you mean for the CFFormula is:? Please give an example. Gord On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:55:39 -0800 (PST), RedBeard wrote: Addendum, I got it working. However, an additional question, how do I combine multiple dates in the same formula? I meant as following: =$A1=DATEVALUE("12/25/2009") + DATEVALUE("12/31/2009") + etcetcetc Apologies for being unclear. |
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formatting of row depending on cell value
First of all, you can't have more than one date in a cell unless you enter
them as text. Are you saying A1 will have a varying date? Do you want to format the various dates a different color? If so, you make a rule for each Date. If you want to format various dates to same color you could use the OR function. =OR($A1=DATEVALUE("12/25/2009"),$A1=DATEVALUE("12/31/2009"),$A1=DATEVALUE("1/7/2010")) up to 7 dates. Gord On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:29:35 -0800 (PST), RedBeard wrote: On Nov 18, 6:27*pm, Gord Dibben gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote: Not sure what you mean. Do you mean for the CFFormula is:? Please give an example. Gord On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:55:39 -0800 (PST), RedBeard wrote: Addendum, I got it working. However, an additional question, how do I combine multiple dates in the same formula? I meant as following: + DATEVALUE("12/31/2009") + etcetcetc Apologies for being unclear. |
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formatting of row depending on cell value
On Nov 19, 7:47*pm, Gord Dibben gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote:
First of all, you can't have more than one date in a cell unless you enter them as text. Are you saying A1 will have a varying date? Do you want to format the various dates a different color? If so, you make a rule for each Date. If you want to format various dates to same color you could use the OR function. =OR($A1=DATEVALUE("12/25/2009"),$A1=DATEVALUE("12/31/2009"),$A1=DATEVALUE("1/7/2010")) up to 7 dates. Gord On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:29:35 -0800 (PST), RedBeard wrote: On Nov 18, 6:27*pm, Gord Dibben gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote: Not sure what you mean. Do you mean for the CFFormula is:? Please give an example. Gord On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:55:39 -0800 (PST), RedBeard wrote: Addendum, I got it working. However, an additional question, how do I combine multiple dates in the same formula? I meant as following: + DATEVALUE("12/31/2009") + etcetcetc Apologies for being unclear. Unclear again, my mistake. However, you provided me with the solution in #2 so I'm now sorted, thanks for all the effort. |
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