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Highlighting Plot Numbers
Hi
I am trying to get Excel to recognise a column I have called Plot Numbers which sometimes have duplicate values. I want excel to highlight in a different colour each plot number. So for example there may be 3 people that live in Plot 3 so I want plot 3 to be highlighted in 1 colour. Then say if just 1 person lives at Plot 12 I want plot 12 highlighted in a different colour.
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For text values, you'd need to create a separate rule for each plot number. That's not too bad if you have a small number of different plot numbers, but it quickly becomes tedious if you have more of them.
If you could use numbers such as 1, 2, 3 etc. in the cells, you can use the custom number format
"Plot "0
to display 1 as "Plot 1" etc.
You can then create a conditional formatting rule with a 2-color scale or 3-color scale, as in the screenshots below:
Thank you. This has worked nicely.
