HI Bob,

but then once a name range is defined, how can we apply the conditional
format to go down an entire column for example?

if:
namerange1( ) = namerange2 ( )
then make namerange1 ( ) call yellow background.

namerange1 and namerange2 are on two different worksheets.

thank you.

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

It is allowed, but any range that you refer to on another sheet must be
referenced by way of a named range (InsertNameDefine...).

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HTH

Bob

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"jkl" wrote in message
...
My version of Excel informs me that condtional formatting across
worksheets
is not allowed. Is that the case for the latest versions of Excel as
well?
If so, does anyone have a handy way of getting around this limitation? I
am
trying to use dates in one worksheet to allow me to generate a gantt chart
in
another worksheet. The best I can do at this point is copy the date info
from the first sheet into the second sheet and then do conditional
formatting
within the second sheet. I'd just as soon avoid having the date columns
in
the second sheet since the gantt charts will display the dates. In
addition, when doing the conditional formatting, the cells keep displaying
the result (TRUE or FALSE). This makes the gantt chart look pretty silly.
Any way I can tell Excel not to make the result visible but still provide
the
format requested (in this case, color shading). THANKS!