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EberleinHE
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Nov 18, 2021
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Conditional formatting problem

Hi,   i have a problem and maybe someone can help me here.. I did a conditional formatting for my worksheets, the rule is =AND($E3<200000;$E3>0,39) for a fat and underlined format. Now in $E3 is a...
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  • SergeiBaklan's avatar
    SergeiBaklan
    Nov 18, 2021

    EberleinHE 

    You have text in column E (">5"), not number.  In Excel any text is "more" than any number, thus formula in conditional formatting rule returns FALSE for any text.

     

    As variant you may change on formula like this

    or expand it replacing "<" if any as well

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EberleinHE
Copper Contributor
Nov 18, 2021

SergeiBaklanHi Sergei,

 

thank you for your seloution. It still dont work in my case. Please take a look to my conditional formatting:

 

 

And here the rule for the row:

 

 

Maybe its something with the rule in the row? I dont really know, i have no idea why it dont work..

 

Thank you in advance!

 

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SergeiBaklan
Diamond Contributor
Nov 18, 2021

EberleinHE 

You have text in column E (">5"), not number.  In Excel any text is "more" than any number, thus formula in conditional formatting rule returns FALSE for any text.

 

As variant you may change on formula like this

or expand it replacing "<" if any as well