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Rules and conditions specific on each line

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Hello,

I'm having issues with some conditions. I have employees that are younger than others in the company and I need to check when I have to control their work (juniors needing to be tested more often than seniors).

Therefore I have 3 rules for Jr and 3 rules for Sr as shown on the screen shot : screenshot 

 

In the E column I have the date when I checked their work. If it's more than 20 days for jr, their names and forenames goes red. If more than 15 days, it goes orange (as a reminder). 

It's the same for Sr but every 111 days (red) and 80 days (orange). 

I have their first day in the company in the B column and the number of days since (to determine if he/she has been in the company for more or less than 60 days) to know which 3 rules to apply.

According to their arrival date, a different rule will apply.

 

So far, my rules have been working for the first employee in every possible combinaison, but here is my issue:

I would like to have these 6 rules applied for every employee automatically on each line, accordingly to their own dates (since they all came in the company on a different day and their last check-up isn't on the same day neither), without having to re-enter each rule manually. If a new employee comes in my sheet, I'd like the rules to apply directly. 

 

When I set the rule range (all the cells the rule must apply) to all the A column, it bases the rules only on the dates and conditions from the first employee, which is wrong since every employee has a different date for their last check-up and their arrival into the company. 

 

Does anyone know how I can deal with this, to apply the rules accrodingly to the line it's on with specific dates without having to set all the rules manually ?

 

Thank you so much for your help!

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best response confirmed by BlackAngel221B (Copper Contributor)
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@BlackAngel221B 

 

In the screen shot you have absolute references; they need to be relative, in order for the conditional formatting in the lower rows to be using data from that respective row.  So change $B$4 to B4 (or at least $B4); Similarly the reference to $C$3, although it's not clear to me why that refers to a different row. Of course, I don't know how you've arrayed the data for each employee.

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Oh right! Yes indeed it works better know. I don't know why excel decided to put the cell I was clicking on in absolute... Thank you very much, now it works!

@BlackAngel221B 

 

I don't know why excel decided to put the cell I was clicking on in absolute...

 

Yes. That's the default way it works. I've been caught in that trap myself, which is why I knew to look there first.

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best response confirmed by BlackAngel221B (Copper Contributor)
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@BlackAngel221B 

 

In the screen shot you have absolute references; they need to be relative, in order for the conditional formatting in the lower rows to be using data from that respective row.  So change $B$4 to B4 (or at least $B4); Similarly the reference to $C$3, although it's not clear to me why that refers to a different row. Of course, I don't know how you've arrayed the data for each employee.

mathetes_0-1668479529097.png

 

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