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Old April 23rd, 2004, 10:55 PM
djranks
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i have an account spreadsheet. with a column heading reading status.
How can i tell excel to highlight all cells containing status "I" for
inactive in red, and status "A" for active in green?


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Old April 23rd, 2004, 11:25 PM
Gord Dibben
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You would use FormatConditional Formatting for this.

Select the column in question(I'll assume A).

FormatConditional FormattingFormula is:

enter =A1="I" FormatPattern RedOK

Add =A1="A" FormatPattern GreenOK

Note: you can use up to three conditional formats(four if you count default)

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On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:55:32 -0500, djranks
wrote:

i have an account spreadsheet. with a column heading reading status.
How can i tell excel to highlight all cells containing status "I" for
inactive in red, and status "A" for active in green?


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Old April 23rd, 2004, 11:44 PM
djranks
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it works pefectly fine. my heading is in a1 reads' Status.
my first selection is a2 which reads I. but my formula starts working
from a3 and on. it skips a2 and does nothing with it. but it works from
a3 and so on


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Old April 24th, 2004, 12:53 AM
Gord Dibben
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So, you get red and green colored cells for instances of "I" or "A" except in
A2.

Right?

Don't know why A2 would not color Red if it indeed contains the letter I(or i,
CF is not case-sensitive).

Select A2 and check your CF formula is: for first and/or second condition.
Should read =A2="I" or =A2="A"

Gord

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 17:44:04 -0500, djranks
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it works pefectly fine. my heading is in a1 reads' Status.
my first selection is a2 which reads I. but my formula starts working
from a3 and on. it skips a2 and does nothing with it. but it works from
a3 and so on


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