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RhiLew
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Jan 06, 2024
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How to change the colour of a cell based on another value

Hi Everyone, Happy New Year!    Looking for some help please. I have already applied conditional formatting to this spreadsheet to highlight improvement (green) or decline (red) in figures. Howeve...
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    Lorenzo
    Jan 06, 2024

    Hi RhiLew 

    Happy New Year too

     

    or (even better) Make the name cell (A:B) fill red if the value of any M:Q < K ?

     

    Conditional Formatting rule that applies to (with the above example) $A$5:$B$9:

    =COUNTIF($M5:$Q5, "<" & $K5)

     

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RhiLew
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Jan 21, 2024
Oh you are the best thank you so much! I can't believe the support of this community; so helpful; and so quick to respond - it's so appreciated.

(also kicking myself at how close I was to figuring it out myself!! 🤣)

Thank you again

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