I want to conditionally format a cell - say cell B1 - based on the value in
another cell - say cell A1 - and then apply that relative formula to a column
of values:

if B1 < A1 then turn red
if B1 <= (A1 * 0.90) then turn yellow

I can create the rules for this (red rule gets priority over yellow rule) in
the new Excel 2007, but I can not figure out how to copy down the rule to
cells B2 (compared to cell A2), B3 (compared to cell A3), etc.

In the older version of Excel I could just copy and paste special --
formats, but in this version, it keeps putting the $ in front of the
variables (i.e. $A$1) fixing them in place. (It won't let me delete the $
signs; it adds them back in whenever I click "apply".) I have a column of
several hundred values and don't really fancy adding each of these rules to
all of the values!

Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Highlight all the cells in column B first, with B1 as the active cell,
and then apply your CF rules as if for B1 - Excel will adjust the cell
references for you when you OK out.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Dec 7, 4:37*am, kboekhoff
wrote:
I want to conditionally format a cell - say cell B1 - based on the value in
another cell - say cell A1 - and then apply that relative formula to a column
of values:

if B1 < A1 then turn red
if B1 <= (A1 * 0.90) then turn yellow

I can create the rules for this (red rule gets priority over yellow rule) in
the new Excel 2007, but I can not figure out how to copy down the rule to
cells B2 (compared to cell A2), B3 (compared to cell A3), etc.

In the older version of Excel I could just copy and paste special --
formats, but in this version, it keeps putting the $ in front of the
variables (i.e. $A$1) fixing them in place. (It won't let me delete the $
signs; it adds them back in whenever I click "apply".) I have a column of
several hundred values and don't really fancy adding each of these rules to
all of the values!

Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Unfortunately, that did not work. It is still only doing conditional
formatting based on cell A1 for all selected cells...

"Pete_UK" wrote:

Highlight all the cells in column B first, with B1 as the active cell,
and then apply your CF rules as if for B1 - Excel will adjust the cell
references for you when you OK out.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Dec 7, 4:37 am, kboekhoff
wrote:
I want to conditionally format a cell - say cell B1 - based on the value in
another cell - say cell A1 - and then apply that relative formula to a column
of values:

if B1 < A1 then turn red
if B1 <= (A1 * 0.90) then turn yellow

I can create the rules for this (red rule gets priority over yellow rule) in
the new Excel 2007, but I can not figure out how to copy down the rule to
cells B2 (compared to cell A2), B3 (compared to cell A3), etc.

In the older version of Excel I could just copy and paste special --
formats, but in this version, it keeps putting the $ in front of the
variables (i.e. $A$1) fixing them in place. (It won't let me delete the $
signs; it adds them back in whenever I click "apply".) I have a column of
several hundred values and don't really fancy adding each of these rules to
all of the values!

Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!