Conditional Formatting - formula for adjacent cells

[Noortje Vollenberg]

Hello,

Sorry for posting again but I got no response on my original post, so here I am trying again. If anyone could help me that would be great! I need to set up conditional formatting for a column where the cell turns red or green based on the information in the cell to their left.

I have the following information in an Excel sheet:

November
Expected	Actual
0	1
20	19
60	40
20	20

Now I want to set conditional formatting for column B "Actual". If:

• B3 >= A3 then B3 is green;
• B3 < A3 then B3 is red.

And so on for the following rows: B4 >= A4, B4 is green / B4 < A4, B4 is red, etc. etc.

I'm not sure how to set this up without having to set conditional formatting for every single cell. And since I have many more of these collumns and rows I really do not want to do that. Is there a formula that I could use?

Thanks in advance for your help!

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Hi Noortje,

1) Format in red column B

2) Add rule for "green" condition as

3) Apply it to column B

Result is

Just be careful with absolute and relative regferences in the rule formula

[#3]

Hi Sergei,

I'm not too familiar with absolute and relative references so I didn't even think of that. It's working now!

Thanks so much for you help.

[#4]

That's simple, here is https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Switch-between-relative-absolute-and-mixed-references-dfec0... explained