Forum Discussion
creating a formula to highlight a cell based on another cell in the same row
- May 07, 2021
Jella510 Tried to replicate your situation in the attached workbook. see if you can "transform" the CF rule to your schedule(s).
Jella510 You do this with Conditional Formatting. On the Home ribbon.
Select the range of cell you want to format.
Press Conditional Formatting
New rule
Select "Use a formula to determine which cells to format"
Enter a formula like: =A1="Overdue"
and choose the format you want (fill, boarder, font colour)
It could look like this:
Riny_van_Eekelen I can't get that to work. I need the circled column to be able to turn yellow when the overdue title comes up. The first cell is C8. I'm not sure what I did wrong?
- Riny_van_EekelenMay 07, 2021Platinum Contributor
Jella510 Tried to replicate your situation in the attached workbook. see if you can "transform" the CF rule to your schedule(s).