Add two formulas to one cell?

Question

Hi,I have created a formula which changes the colour of a cell depending on certain inputs on the worksheet. However, I need the cell to change colour from red to green and include the phrase "complete".&nbsp;Is there a simple solution to the above issue?The formula I use is:&nbsp;=IF(D5&gt;0,IF(ISBLANK(I5),"Red","Green"),"white")&nbsp;Thank you

lanamaria · Answer

Any solution found?!? 🙂&nbsp;Don_101&nbsp;

hansvogelaar · Answer

LanaMaria&nbsp;
If you have a similar problem, please provide detailed information about your setup, and if possible, attach a small sample workbook without sensitive information. Alternatively, upload it to for example Google Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox and post a link to the uploaded file in a reply.

steerr · Answer

Don_101 -- Yes, as Hans Vogelaar indicated, I suspect no one answered because there was insufficient information -- such as how "completion" relates to other inputs (room type?), and how your formula (which will currently evaluate to the WORDS "red", "green" or "white" -- not to colors as shown) was working for you.

I *THINK* maybe what you need is to combine an "IF" test for whatever counts as completion (with the text "Complete" as the value-if-true) with conditional formatting, which would assign a green background if the cell value is "Complete". First you would set a value for the target cell that makes the cell either say "Complete" or stay blank, i.e =IF([some test], "Complete", ""). Then you would go to conditional formatting and choose "format cells that contain" (or something similar depending on your version of Excel) and set the test as 'equals "Complete" ', and set the format when true to a green cell background.