Thanks Bob, I've tried the conditional formatting which goes half way to
solving my problem however I have more than three conditions which I want to
check against. So I will have to try something else.

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

See http://www.contextures.com/xlCondFormat01.html

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HTH

Bob


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"Wayne" wrote in message
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I am using the vlookup function to return a value however I also want to
set
the shading of the cell depending on the value in the lookup table. Do
you
know if it is possible to this using a function?