Conditional formatting "contains"
Don't adjust the formula. Select your whole column, and then if A2 is the
active cell use your =FIND("-NE-",A2) as the CF formula.
When you look in A3, you will see that the formula is =FIND("-NE-",A3), and
so on.
An alternative is to format the first cell, then use either format painter
or Copy and Edit/Paste Special/ Formats to copy the format down the rest of
the column.
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David Biddulph
"Amy" wrote in message
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Jacob,
Thanks for the response!
This works if I'm only formatting a single cell (i.e. Formula is
=FIND("-NE-",A2) will format cell A2.)
However, I can't get it to work for an entire column. Even if I select the
column and change the formula to =FIND("-NE-",A:A) it is ineffectual. I
adjusted the formula several ways with no success.
Any ideas for getting the same concept to work on a column of data?
"Jacob Skaria" wrote:
1. Select the range
2. From menu FormatConditional Formatting
3. For Condition1Select 'Formula Is' and enter the below formula
=FIND("-NE-",D1)
Click Format ButtonPattern and select your color (say Red)
4. Click on Add button.
5. For Condition2Select 'Formula Is' and enter the below formula
=FIND("-SE-",D1)
Click Format ButtonPattern and select your color (say Orange)
6. Hit OK
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Jacob Skaria
"Amy" wrote:
I would like to be able to conditionally format data that is contained
within
a cell even if there is other data in the cell.
For example:
A2 - East-NE-NO-ETC
A3 - East-NE-TP-Critical
A4 - East-SE-NO-Investment
A5 - East-SE-CM-Investment
I'd like to be able to conditionally format all of the cells in Column
A
that contain "NE" to be one color, and all that contain "SE" to be
another
color.
Is that possible? How? Thanks in advance for any input!
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