Hi Kate,
Your conditional formatting works logically. The first condition that can be
evaluated to true causes that conditional formatting to be set. If you want
the Overdue condition to be the priority condition, change the order of the
conditional formats so that the overdue condition is the first of the
conditional formats.

Does that make sense??
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Thanks,
MarkN


"KATE MCL" wrote:

Thanks heaps Mark, it worked that time! I changed it from $A4 to $H4.

I have posted another question in regard to Highlighting Overdue Tasks, do
you have any suggestions regarding that???

Cheers
Kate

"MarkN" wrote:

Hi Kate,
Did you use the cell reference $A4 (as opposed to $A$4) as mine works OK.
Let me know.
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Thanks,
MarkN


"KATE MCL" wrote:

Thanks Mark!

It worked for one row that already had Completed in it however my status
column has drop down boxes to select from either Not Started, Pending or
Completed.

When I changed the formatted cell from Completed to Pending the formatting
did not revert back to the normal format. Also when I selected other cells in
the status column (column H) and changed the status to Completed nothing
happened.

Any ideas how I can change this?

Kate

"MarkN" wrote:

Hi Kate,

Highlight the entire area that will be subject to the conditional
formatting, highlight as far across the rows as required. Format, Conditional
Formatting and select Formula Is. Then enter your required formula:
=$A2="Completed", then apply the required format. Click OK
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Hope that helps,
MarkN


"KATE MCL" wrote:

I am creating an action plan in excel 2003 and I want to use conditional
formatting to format the row once a cell in the action status column reads
"Completed".

I can use Conditional Formatting to format the cell containing "Completed"
however I don't know what to do to apply this formatting to the rest of the
row in the range.

Can anyone help me with this!

Cheers
Kate