You want conditional formatting

Look up 'Highlight cells that meet specific conditions' in the Answer
wizard in help


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Bob Phillips

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hi there

i have data which is either in tolerance, or out of tolerance. i need
the data to be black in tolerance and red out of tolerance. in
tolerance is 140.50 to 145.00 any thing else is out of tolerance.

many thanks

neil


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