Look up 'Highlight cells that meet specific conditions' in the Answer
wizard in help

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"Niek Otten" wrote in message
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Use FormatConditional formatting

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Niek Otten

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"Richard" wrote in message
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I am trying to format a cell so that if a value is greater than 5 the
cell
will be coloured Red, if it is between 2 and 4 it will be Orange and if
it
is
between zero and 1 it will be Green, how do I do it?
I tried to use the IF function but it didn't seem to work.