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m-williams47
May 30, 2025Copper Contributor
Help with excel formula relating to certain coloured text
I have a spreadsheet that I use for bills of how much and when they are due to be paid, I'm trying to find out if there is a formula that enables me to pick out a certain coloured text e.g. column A ...
m_tarler
May 30, 2025Bronze Contributor
spreadsheet formulas do not detect text color (nor most other formatting). you CAN use conditional formatting to format values based on built in or custom rules to apply a particular text color (or other formats like cell/background color). And cell formulas will not move data but you can have a formulas that will 'add'/show data in a table/range. A sample sheet and more specifics of what you are looking for would be helpful to make more specific suggestions. But basically you can have a custom rule in conditional formatting to set the text color and then in those different columns for each week of the month you can have lookup formulas (e.g. XLOOKUP, FILTER) to pull and show the corresponding data.
m-williams47
May 31, 2025Copper Contributor
Thank you I will have a go