Hi Heather
you have a couple of options -
you can use conditional formatting (format / conditional formatting) if you
have 3 or less conditions .... if you have more then:-
1) Bob Phillips has an add-in available for download from his site
http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.....Download.html
2) John McGimpsey has notes on his site on how to do up to 6 without VBA
http://www.mcgimpsey.com/excel/conditional6.html
3) Use VBA - here's an example:
the following code pasted into the "sheet module" of the sheet - right mouse
click on the sheet tab that you want the conditional formatting on and
choose view / code you should see on the top left of the VBE window your
file name in bold (if not try view / project explorer) and the sheet that
you were on selected ...that's the "sheet module" ...on the right you should
see some white space - copy & paste the code in there -
assuming you want the conditional formatting to work on cell B6
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
On Error GoTo ws_exit:
Application.EnableEvents = False
If Not Intersect(Target, Range("B6")) Is Nothing Then
With Target
Select Case .Value
Case 1: Range("B6").Font.ColorIndex = 4
Case 2: Range("B6").Font.ColorIndex = 3
Case 3: Range("B6").Font.ColorIndex = 0
Case 4: Range("B6").Font.ColorIndex = 6
Case 5: Range("B6").Font.ColorIndex = 13
Case 6: Range("B6").Font.ColorIndex = 46
Case 7: Range("B6").Font.ColorIndex = 11
Case 8: Range("B6").Font.ColorIndex = 7
Case 9: Range("B6").Font.ColorIndex = 55
End Select
End With
End If
ws_exit:
Application.EnableEvents = True
End Sub
--- this turns the font of B6 a different colour depending on what value
(between 1 & 9) is entered in the cell.
if you'ld like additonal help with your criteria & formatting statements,
please feel free to post back with more details.
Cheers
JulieD
"heather" wrote in message
...
Does anyone know if it is possible to colorcode cells? An example is if
this
is under budget I want the cell to appear green. If it is possible, how
is
it done?
Thanks
Heather