Try this link to J E McGimpsey's site:

http://www.mcgimpsey.com/excel/conditional6.html

In it he describes "How to get 6 formats without macros".

Hope this helps.

Pete

Greg L wrote:
Thank you for the help.

"JLatham" wrote:

The only way I've found around the 3-condition limit is to write a custom VBA
macro to detect when a change in the cell(s) takes place, evaluate the new
value and set the format accordingly. You can have virtually unlimited
conditions using this method.

"Greg L" wrote:

I'm trying to use conditional formatting in Excel but am limited to only 3.
Has anyone found a way around this?? I have 4 letters with different
background colors that I'm using and rather than copy and pasting I'm trying
to use a cell pull down but end up having to manually copy and paste one due
to the fact I'm using a default clear cell as a starting point.

Thanks, Greg