Format/ Conditional formatting/ Formula is: =NOT(ISBLANK(A1)) .
Other options are =ISNUMBER(A1) if the date is entered as a number, or
=ISTEXT(A1) if it is text.
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David Biddulph

"terence" wrote in message
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Im making a project plan in excel.

Letc say Ive got 10 different cells (10 different tasks) that each of them
needs to filled with a date when the individual task has been completed. I
have in the end a summary of yet another 10 small cells each corresponding
to
the other 10 cells (this for a qick overview)

So if the first task has been completed the user filles out the date AND
then I want the small cell to turn inte the colour GREEN, how can you do
this?

I would also want that if there is NO text in a cell the small cell should
be default orange colour.

thanks for any help!!