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tarquinious tarquinious is offline
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Originally Posted by frankjh19701 View Post
Could you give me an example, please?
On the first cell (the cell where the data is input) you could use Data Validation.

To do this (in Excel 2007):
- Select the cell that the value is input into
- On the Data toolbar, select Data Validation
- On the Settings tab, enter Allow: Whole Number, Data: less than, Maximum: 5000
- On the Error Alert tab, enter the error message you want to appear when a value greater than 5000 is entered.

Now that it is impossible to enter a value greater than 5000, there is no need to display anything on the second sheet as the value will never go over 5000.

If you would prefer Conditional Formatting however, I am happy to give an example of this instead.