How to make whole rows highlighted by date and text?

Copper Contributor

I'm trying to stay on top of the invoices that I place in my spreadsheet so that whole rows are automatically highlighted once 14 days has passed if they haven't been entered into my accounting software.

 

I typically just change a columns text from "Un-entered" to "Entered"

Currently the formula that I came up with that highlights dates that are 14 days and older is

 =($C2<TODAY()-14)*($C2>1) but my two issues are

 

1) How do I condition it so it highlights the whole row and not just that single column?

 

2) How do I make it so the only highlighted rows are the ones that are:

   * Older than 14 days 

                   &

   * Don't have the word "Entered" in a separate column

2 Replies

@Lenescar_B Select the entire range to which the formatting should should be applied. Not just the one column.

@Lenescar_B

First, delete the existing conditional formatting rule for column C.

Select all the rows that you want to format, not just column C.

Let's say that row 2 is the top row in the selection, and that the active cell in the selection is in row 2.

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

 

=AND($C2<TODAY()-14,$C2<>"",$K2<>"Entered")

 

Here, K is the column in which you type "Entered".

Click Format...

Specify the desired formatting, then OK your way out.