Thanks for that clarification, Harlan.

Pete

On Jan 15, 1:52*am, Harlan Grove wrote:
Pete_UK wrote...

...=OR(A1="wrong",A1="mistake",A1="error")

...

While you can't use arrays directly in conditional formatting, you can
refer to names defined as array constants. If the name TrapWords were
defined as

={"wrong","mistake","error"}

you could use the conditional formatting formula

=OR(A1=TrapWords)