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Shade a cell but not print that color?
Thank you Logaraj for the helpful suggestion! This is a fantastic work-around. But unless there is another solution, I presume that I can't BOTH hide the one shaded color but otherwise print my sheet in color.
Joel, try using conditional formatting (Home, Styles, Conditional Formatting). Select the cells you want to be highlighted yellow and click Conditional Formatting, New Rule. Under Rule Type select "Format only cells that contain" and choose Cell Value (1st drop down), equal to (2nd drop down), and type 0 in the 3rd box. Then click Format and under the Fill Tab choose the color you want the empty cells to be highlighted (in your case, yellow). Click OK and OK again in the initial rule window. This allows you to highlight cells that don't have information and send a digital file to be filled out. Once the person fills in the required cells, the yellow highlight is removed and can be printed. Good luck!
morkimb Instead of using Cell Value equal to Zero, you can use BLANKS and highlight the cells. works well too
I've been looking for a solution to this issue forever so thank you for this info! Follow up question... what about a cell where the value that needs to be entered is $0.00? It seems if that's the case, the cell just remains highlighted no matter what. Please help if you can. Thank you!
- Amber-Lee
I would try changing the conditional formatting to Rule Type “Format only cells that contain” then change the first drop down under Rule Description from “cell value” to “blanks”. That way any data entered would trigger the highlighted cell to turn white once filled. Hope this helps!- I will try that. Thank you!
This is the solution.
