normally rows are 1,2,3... and columns are A,B,C...
do you mean to columns C and D?

Whwn you have the cell which does highlight selected, what does the
conditional format "equation is" say?

"Wendy7" wrote:

Row C has a range of text values with corresponding dollar amounts in Row D.

I would like to change the color of the text in row C and D if the text in
Row C = "abc"

I have used =$C1="abc" and =$C$1="abc"
and it hasn't worked yet.

I've also tried this if statement
=IF($C1="abc",1,0) and it colors the text two rows below the row containing
text 'abc'.

Any help????