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Keep conditional formatting range when inserting/deleting cells/rows/columns?
Hi, I sometimes use conditional formatting. For each entry, there's a cell range that it applies to. Often I need it to be used on the entire sheet, or at least a large range of it, i.e. all rows...
Was having the same issue and so my search led to this forum, searched everywhere else and couldn't find the answer, played around with it and finally figured it out. It's actually a pretty simple solution.
Instead of Inserting a column or copying and inserting a column, all you have to do is select the column cells that you want to extend, then at the bottom of the cursor where the plus sign is, click and drag to the right as many columns as needed.
The CF range extended to the last column without creating any extra conditions or messing up the original range.
I don't apply CF to entire sheets. Only ranges within the sheet.
That would be my preferred option, too. I found it interesting that, while large ranges of conditionally formatting affect the used range, entire CF columns or sheets do not change it.