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Hello this is my conditional formating = " " and this works fine except
that when there is a number in the cell it does not work. How can I do this
without having to convert the numbers to text? thanks
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If you want to highlight fields which are TEXT i.e. are not blank or numeric
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=TEXT($A1) for your CF

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Hello this is my conditional formating = " " and this works fine except
that when there is a number in the cell it does not work. How can I do this
without having to convert the numbers to text? thanks

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.... sorry typo ....should have been =ISTEXT($A1)

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If you want to highlight fields which are TEXT i.e. are not blank or numeric
, use:

=TEXT($A1) for your CF

HTH

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Hello this is my conditional formating = " " and this works fine except
that when there is a number in the cell it does not work. How can I do this
without having to convert the numbers to text? thanks

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Hello

I want to highlight the field whether is text or not.

"Toppers" wrote:

... sorry typo ....should have been =ISTEXT($A1)

"Toppers" wrote:

If you want to highlight fields which are TEXT i.e. are not blank or numeric
, use:

=TEXT($A1) for your CF

HTH

"Wanna Learn" wrote:

Hello this is my conditional formating = " " and this works fine except
that when there is a number in the cell it does not work. How can I do this
without having to convert the numbers to text? thanks

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Try:

=NOT(ISBLANK($A1))

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Hello

I want to highlight the field whether is text or not.

"Toppers" wrote:

... sorry typo ....should have been =ISTEXT($A1)

"Toppers" wrote:

If you want to highlight fields which are TEXT i.e. are not blank or numeric
, use:

=TEXT($A1) for your CF

HTH

"Wanna Learn" wrote:

Hello this is my conditional formating = " " and this works fine except
that when there is a number in the cell it does not work. How can I do this
without having to convert the numbers to text? thanks



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