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olivermuk
Aug 20, 2019Copper Contributor
Conditional formatting rules using a formula AND an icon set
Hi all Is it possible to create a conditional formatting rule that uses a formula and also allows me to use an icon set? The conditional formatting dialog has an option for formatting based o...
SergeiBaklan
Aug 20, 2019Diamond Contributor
Hi Olly,
You may work with formulas and the icons set, the only issue formulas here work only with absolute references. As workaround you may use OFFSET, INDIRECT or INDEX to have the proper references. For such sample
first formula is
=INDIRECT("A"&ROW())*1.2
second one is similar.
Another trick, you can't apply such rule to entire range at once. Thus first apply to B1 (for our sample) and that move formatting by Format Painter on other cells.
Patrick Matthews
Mar 26, 2021Copper Contributor
Sergei thank you, your suggestion worked a treat