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Gord Dibben Gord Dibben is offline
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Default conditional formating

Select the column...........assume column A

FormatCFFormula is: =$A1<TODAY()

Format to desired color and OK


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP


On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:28:45 -0000, "Tracy"
wrote:

I have a spreadsheet with a column of dates from the past to the future. How
can I format the cells so that the dates previous to today have a colour in
the cells?

Thanks, Tracy