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Conditional Formating
Is there any way to format a column so that if any info is entered into a
cell then its highlighted but if there is no info then nothing happens ex. (INFO BLAH BLAH) would be black text w gold background (blank) would be black text w no background (NEW INFO BLAH) would be black text w gold background |
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Conditional Formating
Select the cell you want this to happen to (eg A1) then Format |
Conditional Formatting. In the panel that pops up select "Formula Is" rather than Cell Value Is, and in the next panel enter: =NOT(ISBLANK(A1)) then click on the Format button and the Patterns tab and select the background colour that you want (Gold), then OK your way out of it. You can then use the Format Painter icon to apply the format to other cells. Another approach is to apply the background colour to the cell normally, then select Conditional Formatting but this time use the formula: =ISBLANK(A1) and select a white background and OK twice. Conditional Formatting takes precedent over the normal formatting of a cell, so if the cell is empty it will appear white. Hope this helps. Pete On Sep 24, 7:12 pm, markythesk8erboi wrote: Is there any way to format a column so that if any info is entered into a cell then its highlighted but if there is no info then nothing happens ex. (INFO BLAH BLAH) would be black text w gold background (blank) would be black text w no background (NEW INFO BLAH) would be black text w gold background |
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Conditional Formating
Thank you so much youve saved me from my headache!!!!
Youre awesome!!!! "Pete_UK" wrote: Select the cell you want this to happen to (eg A1) then Format | Conditional Formatting. In the panel that pops up select "Formula Is" rather than Cell Value Is, and in the next panel enter: =NOT(ISBLANK(A1)) then click on the Format button and the Patterns tab and select the background colour that you want (Gold), then OK your way out of it. You can then use the Format Painter icon to apply the format to other cells. Another approach is to apply the background colour to the cell normally, then select Conditional Formatting but this time use the formula: =ISBLANK(A1) and select a white background and OK twice. Conditional Formatting takes precedent over the normal formatting of a cell, so if the cell is empty it will appear white. Hope this helps. Pete On Sep 24, 7:12 pm, markythesk8erboi wrote: Is there any way to format a column so that if any info is entered into a cell then its highlighted but if there is no info then nothing happens ex. (INFO BLAH BLAH) would be black text w gold background (blank) would be black text w no background (NEW INFO BLAH) would be black text w gold background |
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Conditional Formating
Thanks for feeding back. I also replied to your email with the follow-
up question, but please follow up to the newsgroups so all can benefit. Pete On Sep 24, 8:08 pm, markythesk8erboi wrote: Thank you so much youve saved me from my headache!!!! Youre awesome!!!! "Pete_UK" wrote: Select the cell you want this to happen to (eg A1) then Format | Conditional Formatting. In the panel that pops up select "Formula Is" rather than Cell Value Is, and in the next panel enter: =NOT(ISBLANK(A1)) then click on the Format button and the Patterns tab and select the background colour that you want (Gold), then OK your way out of it. You can then use the Format Painter icon to apply the format to other cells. Another approach is to apply the background colour to the cell normally, then select Conditional Formatting but this time use the formula: =ISBLANK(A1) and select a white background and OK twice. Conditional Formatting takes precedent over the normal formatting of a cell, so if the cell is empty it will appear white. Hope this helps. Pete On Sep 24, 7:12 pm, markythesk8erboi wrote: Is there any way to format a column so that if any info is entered into a cell then its highlighted but if there is no info then nothing happens ex. (INFO BLAH BLAH) would be black text w gold background (blank) would be black text w no background (NEW INFO BLAH) would be black text w gold background- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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