I tried it but all the blank cells in the range I applied the conditional
formatting got shaded as well. I will continue to look into it.

THANKS!

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www.pttinc.com
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
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Bill,

That last formula I gave you, with the way to implement it, should do just
that.

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HTH

RP
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"Bill Foley" wrote in message
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Sure enough worked as well. THANKS!

One last thing - Any idea how to skip blank cells in a range (or have an
IF
statement that only does the conditional formatting if the cell has a
date
in it)?

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Bill Foley
www.pttinc.com
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
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"Bill Foley" wrote in message
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Let's say A15 has a date of 10/1/2004 (Oct 1, 2004). I need it to
be
shaded
when it is within 1 month of 10/1/2005 (Oct 1, 2005). Since it is
already
past that date, it still needs to be shaded until a new date is
entered
when
re-training is done. Since there any number of rows and dates, I
need
it
to
look at each cell in the range and shade it if it is older than 11
months
from today's date.

My reading of the periodicity made me wonder if you would put a date
in,
and
then you wanted it highlighted every said period after that date. The
fact
that you are want it to saty shaded until it expires and will then
update
the date makes it significantly easier.

You can use the technique given, but still use a number of months as
you
originally asked with a formula of

=DATE(YEAR(TODAY()),MONTH(TODAY())-A$1000+1,DAY(TODAY()))

"=TODAY()-$A$1000" condition, blank cells are also shaded. I know
how
to
do
a conditional formula to only run a formula if a cell has a value in
it,
but
wasn't sure if that could be done with conditional formatting also.

This can be handled, albeit with a more complex formula. To do this,
and
apply to all cells and all sheets

On the first sheet, select all the cells that will have dates on one
worksheet (assuming starting at A2)
Group from that sheet to the last (hold shift and click the final
sheet
tab)
FormatConditional Formatting
Change conditions 1 to Formula Is
Add this formula
=AND(A2<"",A2<DATE(YEAR(TODAY()),MONTH(TODAY())-A$10+1,DAY(TODAY())))
Add the format
OK