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Conditional Formatting on empty cells
I'm setting up a new report for the month of July and creating formatting
rules for data that will be entered throughout the month. However, when I apply my rules to cells that have not yet got data entered (eg. for next week) it is showing up as "formatted" even though the cell is empty. Is there an override for this conditional formatting so that it the formatting won't show up until I enter something in that cell? I'm new to Excel 2007. Thanks, |
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Conditional Formatting on empty cells
Add an argument to your formulas that tests for that condition.
For example, if you had a formula: =A1<100 Revise it to: =And(A1<100,A1<"") OR =And(A1<100,A10) -- HTH, RD --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please keep all correspondence within the NewsGroup, so all may benefit ! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "mgccoop" wrote in message ... I'm setting up a new report for the month of July and creating formatting rules for data that will be entered throughout the month. However, when I apply my rules to cells that have not yet got data entered (eg. for next week) it is showing up as "formatted" even though the cell is empty. Is there an override for this conditional formatting so that it the formatting won't show up until I enter something in that cell? I'm new to Excel 2007. Thanks, |
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Thanks,
When using Excel 2007 I'm stuggling how to enter formulae like that. It was easier to do that within the old conditional formatting process. However using what you suggested before I was able to fix it by revising it from: Cell Value is less than 70 to Cell Value is between 1 and 70. Thanks for your help. "Ragdyer" wrote: Add an argument to your formulas that tests for that condition. For example, if you had a formula: =A1<100 Revise it to: =And(A1<100,A1<"") OR =And(A1<100,A10) -- HTH, RD --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please keep all correspondence within the NewsGroup, so all may benefit ! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "mgccoop" wrote in message ... I'm setting up a new report for the month of July and creating formatting rules for data that will be entered throughout the month. However, when I apply my rules to cells that have not yet got data entered (eg. for next week) it is showing up as "formatted" even though the cell is empty. Is there an override for this conditional formatting so that it the formatting won't show up until I enter something in that cell? I'm new to Excel 2007. Thanks, |
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In xl2007, you get lots and lots of rules for conditional formatting.
You could make your first rule: cell value is ="" and stop if true And make it the format you like. Or you could modify the formula so that it makes sure that the cell is nonblank. Say you want to shade A1 if B1 contains a value 12--but only if A1 has something in it. You could use: formula is: =AND(B112,A1<"") === You may get a better response if you share the formula/rule that you're using. mgccoop wrote: I'm setting up a new report for the month of July and creating formatting rules for data that will be entered throughout the month. However, when I apply my rules to cells that have not yet got data entered (eg. for next week) it is showing up as "formatted" even though the cell is empty. Is there an override for this conditional formatting so that it the formatting won't show up until I enter something in that cell? I'm new to Excel 2007. Thanks, -- Dave Peterson |
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My conditions are
Value 90 = red value <86-90 = yellow value < 75-85 = green value < 70-75 = yellow Value <70 = red It is the last one that is causing grief as all blank cells are showing as red. Your example shows an absolute cell reference but if I type in a range of cells as below I am getting an error message. =AND($E$38,$E$6:$E$36<70,<"") I think I'm close but I'm still missing something. Thanks, "Dave Peterson" wrote: In xl2007, you get lots and lots of rules for conditional formatting. You could make your first rule: cell value is ="" and stop if true And make it the format you like. Or you could modify the formula so that it makes sure that the cell is nonblank. Say you want to shade A1 if B1 contains a value 12--but only if A1 has something in it. You could use: formula is: =AND(B112,A1<"") === You may get a better response if you share the formula/rule that you're using. mgccoop wrote: I'm setting up a new report for the month of July and creating formatting rules for data that will be entered throughout the month. However, when I apply my rules to cells that have not yet got data entered (eg. for next week) it is showing up as "formatted" even though the cell is empty. Is there an override for this conditional formatting so that it the formatting won't show up until I enter something in that cell? I'm new to Excel 2007. Thanks, -- Dave Peterson |
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When using Excel 2007 I'm stuggling how to enter formulae like that. It
was easier to do that within the old conditional formatting process. Select your cells; click on the "Conditional Formatting" button in the Styles panel on the Home tab; select "Manage Rules" from the popup menu that appears; click the "New Rules" button on the dialog box that appears; and select "Use a formula to determine which cells to format"... the remainder of the process should look familiar. Rick |
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I don't know what you want or why you're specifying E6:E36, but maybe one of
these will help you with the syntax: =AND($E$38<"",countif($E$6:$E$36,"<70")1) =AND($E$38<"",max($E$6:$E$36<70)) =AND($E$38<"",min($E$6:$E$36<70)) If these don't help, maybe it's time to describe what you want to check. mgccoop wrote: My conditions are Value 90 = red value <86-90 = yellow value < 75-85 = green value < 70-75 = yellow Value <70 = red It is the last one that is causing grief as all blank cells are showing as red. Your example shows an absolute cell reference but if I type in a range of cells as below I am getting an error message. =AND($E$38,$E$6:$E$36<70,<"") I think I'm close but I'm still missing something. Thanks, "Dave Peterson" wrote: In xl2007, you get lots and lots of rules for conditional formatting. You could make your first rule: cell value is ="" and stop if true And make it the format you like. Or you could modify the formula so that it makes sure that the cell is nonblank. Say you want to shade A1 if B1 contains a value 12--but only if A1 has something in it. You could use: formula is: =AND(B112,A1<"") === You may get a better response if you share the formula/rule that you're using. mgccoop wrote: I'm setting up a new report for the month of July and creating formatting rules for data that will be entered throughout the month. However, when I apply my rules to cells that have not yet got data entered (eg. for next week) it is showing up as "formatted" even though the cell is empty. Is there an override for this conditional formatting so that it the formatting won't show up until I enter something in that cell? I'm new to Excel 2007. Thanks, -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
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