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Excel conditional formatting
Please help with conditional formatting rules. In our unit the trainer can not be the same as the certifier. I manually colored it to what I wish to see. Thank you a TON in advance!!
in that case ignore my comment above.
yes the formula can be made to ignore the first 3 rows but you will have to use row 1 in the formula so something like = (G1<>E1)*(ROW(G1)>3)*(G1<>"")
but my question is if both G and H should be green/red based on G alone or not. For example could you have G4=E4 but H4<>F4 and therefore want the cells to be RED and GREEN respectively? If so the 2 conditional formatting formulas are
Highlight entired columns G:H then
for GREEN:
= (G1<>E1)*(ROW(G1)>3)*(G1<>"")
for RED:
= (G1=E1)*(ROW(G1)>3)*(G1<>"")
yes the formula can be made to ignore the first 3 rows but you will have to use row 1 in the formula so something like = (G1<>E1)*(ROW(G1)>3)*(G1<>"")
but my question is if both G and H should be green/red based on G alone or not. For example could you have G4=E4 but H4<>F4 and therefore want the cells to be RED and GREEN respectively? If so the 2 conditional formatting formulas are
Highlight entired columns G:H then
for GREEN:
= (G1<>E1)*(ROW(G1)>3)*(G1<>"")
for RED:
= (G1=E1)*(ROW(G1)>3)*(G1<>"")
Thank you for the response,
Yes we can make G and H be green/red based on G.
Yes we can make G and H be green/red based on G.
- if you want both columns G and H to depend on ONLY col G vs col E then
Highlight entired columns G:H then
for GREEN:
= ($G1<>$E1)*(ROW(G1)>3)*($G1<>"")
for RED:
= ($G1=$E1)*(ROW(G1)>3)*($G1<>"")
as you can see the only change was adding those $ signs.