Hi,

Have a look in Excel help for conditional formatting and if you get stuck
post back.

Mike

"gustin" wrote:

hello,
i am trying to set up a budget sheet in excel. is there any way to set excel so that a cell will change colors or do some type of alert when it has hit a maximun number. for example: i have a column for expendatures and a cell at the bottom is formulated to add it all up. i want to know if there is someway to set a max amount of the sum, in that cell and excel alerting me when i exceed that max amount?

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