Thanks Rick for your help. When I added twice and put the formula as per
Patrick and then clicked ok nothing else changed except for the color pattern
I already had. When I went back to the conditional formatting I saw that the
added patterns have disappeared. May be I need to save the spreadsheet. Any
thoughts


"Rick Rothstein" wrote:

Press the Add button on the Conditional Formatting dialog box.

--
Rick (MVP - Excel)


"Jack" wrote in message
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Thanks Patrick for your help. I have put the first formula succesfully in
the
formula section. This took care of the first color. How would I put the
rest
two formulas. Thanks.

"Patrick Molloy" wrote:

as you only have three colors, you can use Conditional Formatting

use forrmula is and set these to

1) =MOD(ROW(),4)=1 set pattern to pastel yellow
2) =MOD(ROW(),4)=2 set pattern to pastel green
3) =MOD(ROW(),4)=3 set pattern to pastel red

white is the default


"Jack" wrote in message
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Hi,
I need to have an excel worksheet where the first row is yellow, the
second
is green, the third red and the forth white. Then I need to repeat
these
through the worksheet. The columns are between A and F. I am new to
excel
programming. How does one approach this issue. I appreciate any help
for
resolution. Thanks.