Select the cells while they don't have anything in them and use regular cell
formatting to 'instruct' Excel how to display them when the conditions
controlling conditional formatting are not met?

"Vahe" wrote:

I have a range of cells where I am using conditional formatting. I would
like to "turn off" or "deactivate" conditional formatting while the cell(s)
are empty.

I only want conditional formatting to apply where the cells are NOT null.

Thanks