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Default Conditional Formatting

Yes...say we want B1 to display a background color once A1 has data in it.

Use Formula Is:

=$A$1<""

and then pick the format.
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"Colette" wrote:

How can I get a cell to automatically format when data is placed in an
adjacent cell.
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