tried all formulas
yours did the magic!!

thanks!!!!!

"Gord Dibben" wrote:

CFFormula is =LEN($A1)<5 Format to red


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 10:22:05 -0800, doyree
wrote:

hello,

i have a question with conditional formating. please help.

a
00607
01505
132
12345

i wanted that if cell box contained less than 5 characters, it is fill with
red.
above is all digits stores in text. i made it text since some values have 0
in front.

i went to conditional formating and did
cell value is, not equal to, ="LEN(5)"
then fill box with red
i also tried ="LENB(10)" but that didn't work.

could you please help?

thank you