Conan,

The variations of 'Outside' are acronyms of the other companies names.
So the only constant in the column is 'Home'.

Also it's a live list, I add information to it everyday, will that be a
problem if I highlight just the cells that currently have data? So far the
conditional formatting has been applied to new information because I "insert
copied cells" in stead of just pasting.

Thanks!

AQuigley

"Conan Kelly" wrote:

aquigley,

When you say:

The other values that are entered are variations of
"Outside".

That means what exactly? Do they all start with the word "Outside"?

If so, you could do something like this:

(Assuming conditional formatting data is in B2:B25)
1. Select the data (B2:B25)
2. Open Conditional Formatting (FormatConditional Fomatting...)
3. Change the "Cell Value Is" drop down box to "Formula Is"
4. Enter this formula (w/o the qotes): "=left(B2,7)="Outside""
5. Set formatting properties to your desire.

If "variations of 'Outside'" is something different than my assumption, let
me know and we can adjust it to get it to work.

HTH,

Conan





"aquigley" wrote in message
...
How can I conditionally format a cell based on the value in a different
cell.

I have two columns of information. None of the information in the cells I
am
trying to format is numeric. I am trying to track names to loans that are
with the company. If they wrote outside, I need to keep track of which
other
company it was written with.

The First column currently has a conditional format to highlight the cell
if
the value is = "Home". The other values that are entered are variations of
"Outside". I have to keep the variations as they are, in order to track
which
loans went with which other company.

The second column has the borrowers name. I need this column to highlight
the cells if the loan was written outside.

So if the cell is highlighted in column A, it should not be highlighted in
the column B.
And Vice versa.