You would do that with conditional formatting, FormatConditional
Formatting.

Set the condition to equal, and the value to the text, and format using a
colour from the Palette tab.

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Bob Phillips

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"Ben" wrote in message
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Thanks Bob
the formula works great,is it possible for when an answer is displayed the
text colour can change for example

Late - would be red
Early - would be blue
On-time - would be green

Thanks
Ben


"Bob Phillips" wrote:

=IF(A1+B1=C1+D1,"On Time",IF(A1+B1C1+D1,"Early by
"&TEXT(A1+B1-(C1+D1),"d
""days ""hh:mm"),"Late by "&TEXT(C1+D1-(A1+B1),"d ""days ""hh:mm")))

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Bob Phillips

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"Ben" wrote in message
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Hi,

Is it possible for a formula to calculate the diffence between
seperate
cells.For example can A&B & D&E be read as one.The answer i'm looking
for
in
F is LATE BY 1day 2hr. If they match to read ON-TIME, and if early
to
read
EARLY BY and enter time

Expected Actual
Answer
A B D E F
05/03/2006 12:00 06/03/2006 14:00