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Rule that colours highest value and lowest value
Is there any way I can get excel to detect which cells in each row are higher and lower values and colour them automatically?
im trying to do a spreadsheet that makes it easier for the company I work at to see which of our suppliers have the best prices on the same product but as prices change I don’t want to have to keep changing the colours manually I hope I would be able to change the new price and the rule detects it and colours the highest value red and lowest green.
eg. D6 is £1(green) and F6 is £2(red) but next week I change D6 to £2(red) and F6 is £1(green)
Let's say you have prices in C2:K100.
Select this range. I will assume that C2 is the active cell in the selection.
On the Home tab of the ribbon, click Conditional Formatting > New Rule...
Select 'Use a formula to determine which cells to format'.
Enter the formula=C2=MIN($C2:$K2)
Click Format...
Activate the Fill tab.
Select green as highlight color.
Click OK, then click OK again.Repeat these steps, but with the formula =C2=MAX($C2:$K2) and red as color.
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Let's say you have prices in C2:K100.
Select this range. I will assume that C2 is the active cell in the selection.
On the Home tab of the ribbon, click Conditional Formatting > New Rule...
Select 'Use a formula to determine which cells to format'.
Enter the formula=C2=MIN($C2:$K2)
Click Format...
Activate the Fill tab.
Select green as highlight color.
Click OK, then click OK again.Repeat these steps, but with the formula =C2=MAX($C2:$K2) and red as color.