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Therese
 
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Default Format every "n" rows

Hi
Beforhand you can insert an "n" colomn (Column A) which you can hide when
done. Write an n in the cells next to the rows that you want to format.
Click in B1. Format<conditional formatting< the formular is =$A1="n".
Then click the formatting brush, while still being in B1. Then click at the
top of the columns that you want to format.

Hope it works.
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Therese


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U¿ytkownik "Ed" napisa³ w wiadomo¶ci
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Hello everyone,
I have a question. I am currently working with a very long List of items.

To
make the list more reading-friendly, I would like to have a horizontal

border
line every 5 rows, or every 5th row to have that row with a different

color
fill for example.

On my first column I have the number of item. One way in which I thought

it
could work was to use the ISEVEN combined with RIGHT to have Excel check

the
last number of the item number and apply a Conditional Formatting if cell
value is 0 or 5. I don't know what is going on but for some strange reason

it
doesn't even recognize the simple ISEVEN function...

Anyways the problem I was going to have later on is that when I would

apply
a Filter to the List the those horizontal lines would be all mixed up. Is
there any way to apply something like a Format but to the Background? Not

as
a image but more like something that no matter what every "n" rows I will
have a border line?

,thanks
Ed


check conditional formatting and combine it with number of row
mcg