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Default How can I set conditional formatting in Excel for text sentences?

If the first part of the text is unique for your format you could set the
conditional format condition to
formula is =FIND("Not",G8), where 'Not' is the text and G8 is the cell. This
will format the complete cell not just the word as you can not do just 1 word
in a cell.
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"David" wrote:

Hi -- I have a Excel document with several text boxes that I would like to
have highlighted based on certain criteria of a text match. Can conditional
formatting do this?

For example, "Not enough product is sent early..." And I want the
conditional format to be "not enough" to highlight the box yellow.