Have you considered conditional formatting?

Found in the menu structure Format=Conditional Formatting

See Debra Dalgleish's site:
http://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html
Look under C and conditional formatting
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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"antonov" wrote in message
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Is it possible to change color (or even color the cells if no color has
yet
been chosen) in cells (or rows) only if a certain cell has a (any) value?