Assuming that your number start at A2 to A4 and B2 to B4 try this
Highlight B2 to B4, then go to conditional formatting and select "Cell is",
"Equal greaterthan", Select A2 to A4 then choose your format (red).
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tech1NJ


"Yrrep" wrote:

When I try to select all of column B and CF then "greater than", then select
all column A, then color red
I get "cannot use direct reference to a worksheet range in a conditional
format formula."




"tech1NJ" wrote in message
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Try highlighting all the Cells in Column B then perform your conditional
formating again. You can not copy and paste this function.


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tech1NJ


"Yrrep" wrote:

A B
Range Average
200.0 46.0
500.0 120.0
3900.0 1733.0
950.0 485.0
3000 3317.0
4.8 4.0
2.0 1.2
136.0 87.1
40.0 17.2
need some way to color column B red, if greater than column A

I tried to conditional format but when I copy down it don't work

There are actually 63 rows and 43 columns.


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