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How do I make excel change the colour of a cell depending on a different cells date?
Hi, How do I make excel change the colour of a cell depending on a different cells date? Turn A2 red if - E2 cell is smaller than todays date Turn A2 yellow with red outline if - E2 ce...
Let's say you want to highlight a row if column F contains "Closed".
Use the formula
=$F2="Closed"
If you want something different, please provide more detailed information.
I don't understand, Sorry
Hello,
column E does not have dates. Column F does, and so does column H. In the following I assume you want to use the date in column F. Change the formula to use H if you want to.
- Select cell A2
- click Conditional Formatting on the Home ribbon
- click New Rule
- click Use a formula to determine which cells to format
- click into the formula box and enter the formula
=$F2<Today() - click the Format button and select a red color
- close all dialogs
Repeat the steps and use the formula
=$F2=Today()
and select a yellow fill and red border.
Next, select cell A2 again, click the Format Painter in the home ribbon, then select all other cells below cell A2.
Does that help?
How can I make this formula work using specific words instead of a date?IngeborgHawighorst
Let's say you want to highlight a row if column F contains "Closed".
Use the formula
=$F2="Closed"
If you want something different, please provide more detailed information.
What if the same conditional format can be based on two differing texts in a single cell, such as =$F2="Closed" as well as "Closed-Ext". I'm not sure how to combine that in one conditional formula...
i would like to be able to move the conditions to different cells.
basically id like to condition all the cells based on their own respective value without having to cell by cell
Do you happen to know how to change the cell colour based on an other cell colour?
IE we have a shipping sheet with user name, address, contact number, items in box, box size, tracking number etc and the tracking number cell column is highlighted a colour based on its delivery (we change it to green once delivered) but we'd like the first cell in the row (or whole row) to also change green showing that whole line is complete.
I cannot find anything to support this
