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Conditional Formatting and IF function help
Ok. If you want you can search for my other post for help on a "treasure
hunt" excel sheet. This is what I need now - help on doing the conditional formatting formula. I want it to be like this. Column A is the "questions" Column B is where people will enter the answers. I want it so when someone puts the answer for A1 into cell B1 (i.e. ABCD), the next question in A2 will highlight (with the conditional formatting I will set - it will be white text on white background and when the answer is right in B1, the text in A2 will highlight red). Then, when the person enters the next answer in B2, A3 will highlight and so on all the way down. Also...minor question - is there a way to "lock" the cells until the information in the cell above it is entered? Would that have to be in the formula? Thanks! |
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=AND(B1<"",B2="")
is the CF formula in cell A2 down. -- __________________________________ HTH Bob "Rachael" wrote in message ... Ok. If you want you can search for my other post for help on a "treasure hunt" excel sheet. This is what I need now - help on doing the conditional formatting formula. I want it to be like this. Column A is the "questions" Column B is where people will enter the answers. I want it so when someone puts the answer for A1 into cell B1 (i.e. ABCD), the next question in A2 will highlight (with the conditional formatting I will set - it will be white text on white background and when the answer is right in B1, the text in A2 will highlight red). Then, when the person enters the next answer in B2, A3 will highlight and so on all the way down. Also...minor question - is there a way to "lock" the cells until the information in the cell above it is entered? Would that have to be in the formula? Thanks! |
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Yes!! That works for the formatting, but I forgot to mention - if i have the
answers in a hidden column (i.e. J - so the answer for A1 is in J1, A2 is in J2, etc) how do I link it to that formula? So that if the answer put in B1 matches J1, then the conditional formatting works. If the answer is not matching J1 - nothing happens (no conditional formatting arises). Can you help me fix the formula a little? "Bob Phillips" wrote: =AND(B1<"",B2="") is the CF formula in cell A2 down. -- __________________________________ HTH Bob "Rachael" wrote in message ... Ok. If you want you can search for my other post for help on a "treasure hunt" excel sheet. This is what I need now - help on doing the conditional formatting formula. I want it to be like this. Column A is the "questions" Column B is where people will enter the answers. I want it so when someone puts the answer for A1 into cell B1 (i.e. ABCD), the next question in A2 will highlight (with the conditional formatting I will set - it will be white text on white background and when the answer is right in B1, the text in A2 will highlight red). Then, when the person enters the next answer in B2, A3 will highlight and so on all the way down. Also...minor question - is there a way to "lock" the cells until the information in the cell above it is entered? Would that have to be in the formula? Thanks! |
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=AND(B1<"",B2="",B1=$J1)
-- __________________________________ HTH Bob "Rachael" wrote in message ... Yes!! That works for the formatting, but I forgot to mention - if i have the answers in a hidden column (i.e. J - so the answer for A1 is in J1, A2 is in J2, etc) how do I link it to that formula? So that if the answer put in B1 matches J1, then the conditional formatting works. If the answer is not matching J1 - nothing happens (no conditional formatting arises). Can you help me fix the formula a little? "Bob Phillips" wrote: =AND(B1<"",B2="") is the CF formula in cell A2 down. -- __________________________________ HTH Bob "Rachael" wrote in message ... Ok. If you want you can search for my other post for help on a "treasure hunt" excel sheet. This is what I need now - help on doing the conditional formatting formula. I want it to be like this. Column A is the "questions" Column B is where people will enter the answers. I want it so when someone puts the answer for A1 into cell B1 (i.e. ABCD), the next question in A2 will highlight (with the conditional formatting I will set - it will be white text on white background and when the answer is right in B1, the text in A2 will highlight red). Then, when the person enters the next answer in B2, A3 will highlight and so on all the way down. Also...minor question - is there a way to "lock" the cells until the information in the cell above it is entered? Would that have to be in the formula? Thanks! |
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So far as I can see, that works! I need to do more testing this weekend but
so far I'm ok. Thanks!! "Bob Phillips" wrote: =AND(B1<"",B2="",B1=$J1) -- __________________________________ HTH Bob "Rachael" wrote in message ... Yes!! That works for the formatting, but I forgot to mention - if i have the answers in a hidden column (i.e. J - so the answer for A1 is in J1, A2 is in J2, etc) how do I link it to that formula? So that if the answer put in B1 matches J1, then the conditional formatting works. If the answer is not matching J1 - nothing happens (no conditional formatting arises). Can you help me fix the formula a little? "Bob Phillips" wrote: =AND(B1<"",B2="") is the CF formula in cell A2 down. -- __________________________________ HTH Bob "Rachael" wrote in message ... Ok. If you want you can search for my other post for help on a "treasure hunt" excel sheet. This is what I need now - help on doing the conditional formatting formula. I want it to be like this. Column A is the "questions" Column B is where people will enter the answers. I want it so when someone puts the answer for A1 into cell B1 (i.e. ABCD), the next question in A2 will highlight (with the conditional formatting I will set - it will be white text on white background and when the answer is right in B1, the text in A2 will highlight red). Then, when the person enters the next answer in B2, A3 will highlight and so on all the way down. Also...minor question - is there a way to "lock" the cells until the information in the cell above it is entered? Would that have to be in the formula? Thanks! |
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Fingers crossed <g
-- __________________________________ HTH Bob "Rachael" wrote in message ... So far as I can see, that works! I need to do more testing this weekend but so far I'm ok. Thanks!! "Bob Phillips" wrote: =AND(B1<"",B2="",B1=$J1) -- __________________________________ HTH Bob "Rachael" wrote in message ... Yes!! That works for the formatting, but I forgot to mention - if i have the answers in a hidden column (i.e. J - so the answer for A1 is in J1, A2 is in J2, etc) how do I link it to that formula? So that if the answer put in B1 matches J1, then the conditional formatting works. If the answer is not matching J1 - nothing happens (no conditional formatting arises). Can you help me fix the formula a little? "Bob Phillips" wrote: =AND(B1<"",B2="") is the CF formula in cell A2 down. -- __________________________________ HTH Bob "Rachael" wrote in message ... Ok. If you want you can search for my other post for help on a "treasure hunt" excel sheet. This is what I need now - help on doing the conditional formatting formula. I want it to be like this. Column A is the "questions" Column B is where people will enter the answers. I want it so when someone puts the answer for A1 into cell B1 (i.e. ABCD), the next question in A2 will highlight (with the conditional formatting I will set - it will be white text on white background and when the answer is right in B1, the text in A2 will highlight red). Then, when the person enters the next answer in B2, A3 will highlight and so on all the way down. Also...minor question - is there a way to "lock" the cells until the information in the cell above it is entered? Would that have to be in the formula? Thanks! |
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