Use a default colour for all the cells, then just add 3 condition formats.

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Bob Phillips

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"Joel" wrote in message
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Hi I have three countif statements in my Excel spreadsheet that use
conditional formatting but I need to add a fourth but of couse Excel only
allows three. How can I get around this.

Thank you in advance
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