=OR($a$9="Cumene", $A$9="CTLO", $A$9="Slack Wax")

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HTH

Bob Phillips

(there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy)

"tankerman" wrote in message
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I have three different groups of names that I have to reference
(visionally),
I think the easiest way will be by background color. I tried conditional
formating
=OR($a$9="Cumene", "CTLO", "Slack Wax") and then set a background color
this
would be group 1(these are different products, each on a different row
spread
thru out my sheet, we have 3 different dept. with several different
products
in each dept.), I need three different groups. My trouble is getting the
condition to look for the different names in the groups. I can get the
condition to work on 1 name but can not get it to work on several
different
names.