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Elkar Elkar is offline
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Default Alternate row shading with a filtered spreadsheet

Yes. First off, you'll need one column of data in your filtered range that
does not contain any blanks. Second, you'll need to add a "helper" column
and fill it with this formula:

=SUBTOTAL(103,$A$2:A2)

This assumes that Column A starts at A2 (A1 being your header) and does not
contain any blank values.

Now, apply Conditional Formatting using this custom formula.

=MOD($D2,2)=0

This assumes that Column D is your newly inserted "helper" column and again,
starts at D2.

Set your formatting, and voila, the alternate shading should be applied
correctly regarless of your filter.

(Note: if you have an older version of Excel, this may not work, as the
SUBTOTAL function was changed in more recent versions.)

HTH,
Elkar


"glenlee" wrote:

Is it possible to have every other row shaded in a filtered list? I'd
like to keep the alternate shading, no matter what the filter is set
to.