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How do I make excel change the colour of a cell depending on a different cells date?
Let's say you want to highlight a row if column F contains "Closed".
Use the formula
=$F2="Closed"
If you want something different, please provide more detailed information.
Hello,
column E does not have dates. Column F does, and so does column H. In the following I assume you want to use the date in column F. Change the formula to use H if you want to.
- Select cell A2
- click Conditional Formatting on the Home ribbon
- click New Rule
- click Use a formula to determine which cells to format
- click into the formula box and enter the formula
=$F2<Today() - click the Format button and select a red color
- close all dialogs
Repeat the steps and use the formula
=$F2=Today()
and select a yellow fill and red border.
Next, select cell A2 again, click the Format Painter in the home ribbon, then select all other cells below cell A2.
Does that help?
i would like to be able to move the conditions to different cells.
basically id like to condition all the cells based on their own respective value without having to cell by cell
