All --

This is not a question so much about the code for setting conditional
formating. It is more about the approach.

I want to conditionally set H1:H300 to be =SOMECONDTION($H1). I set
(NOT select) the range, delete the format conditions, and then set my
condition. Lots of examples abound about how to do that.

Best explained by example, what happens for me is that the
SOMECONDITION($H1) gets set as for $H1 in what ever row it is that
contains the active cell. In other words, if J3 is the active cell, H3
has SOMECONDITION($H1), H4 has SOMECONDITION($H2) and H2 has
SOMECONDITION($H65536)!

This drove me really nuts until I related it to the active cell. Firmly
taught by the residents here to set vice select, I couldn't find the
straight forward way to do this. I tried .FILLDOWN and a loop thru, in
the end knowing if I _selected_ the range, or at least H1, H1 would be
the active cell and I'd get what I wanted.

In the spirt of M.P.E.P. I ended up setting each cell's condition via a
loop as absolute references--="=SOMECONDITION($H$" & i &")" in shorthand
for the "i"th cell.

What elegance did I miss?

....best, Hash

P.S. If I didn't use absolute column refs, H3 takes SOMECONDITION(J3).
Don't know what would have happened if the active cell was on another
worksheet, but I can guess.