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Drop Down Shading
Hi,
I wish to create a means of automating my cell shading - ie, I have a spreadsheet which uses a cell shaded either "red", "yellow" or "green" depending on its status. At present, when I enter in more data, I have to click on that cell, and then select the shading colour - a little boring and slow. I tried a Drop Down list, but that only uses text and no colour. Is there a way I can do this? I am a novice - so simple instructions are a must!! Thanks. |
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Drop Down Shading
You can use conditional formatting to change colour automatically. In
Excel 2003 and earlier you are limited to 3 conditional formats in each cell (which is what you describe), in Excel 2007 I think the limit is 64. If you tell us what your status conditions are (and which cells/ columns) then we can give you more detailed instructions. Hope this helps. Pete On Apr 28, 11:21*am, Graeme Wallace wrote: Hi, I wish to create a means of automating my cell shading - ie, I have a spreadsheet which uses a cell shaded either "red", "yellow" or "green" depending on its status. At present, when I enter in more data, I have to click on that cell, and then select the shading colour - a little boring and slow. I tried a Drop Down list, but that only uses text and no colour. Is there a way I can do this? I am a novice - so simple instructions are a must!! Thanks. |
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Thanks Pete,
I have created a Drop Down list and used the Conditional Formatting - working brilliant! At this rate, I will be an Excel Guru!! Thanks again. "Pete_UK" wrote: You can use conditional formatting to change colour automatically. In Excel 2003 and earlier you are limited to 3 conditional formats in each cell (which is what you describe), in Excel 2007 I think the limit is 64. If you tell us what your status conditions are (and which cells/ columns) then we can give you more detailed instructions. Hope this helps. Pete On Apr 28, 11:21 am, Graeme Wallace wrote: Hi, I wish to create a means of automating my cell shading - ie, I have a spreadsheet which uses a cell shaded either "red", "yellow" or "green" depending on its status. At present, when I enter in more data, I have to click on that cell, and then select the shading colour - a little boring and slow. I tried a Drop Down list, but that only uses text and no colour. Is there a way I can do this? I am a novice - so simple instructions are a must!! Thanks. |
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Well, there's a lot of them about on this board !! <bg
Glad to hear that you got it working - thanks for feeding back. Pete On Apr 28, 7:58*pm, Graeme Wallace wrote: Thanks Pete, I have created a Drop Down list and used the Conditional Formatting - working brilliant! At this rate, I will be an Excel Guru!! Thanks again. "Pete_UK" wrote: You can use conditional formatting to change colour automatically. In Excel 2003 and earlier you are limited to 3 conditional formats in each cell (which is what you describe), in Excel 2007 I think the limit is 64. If you tell us what your status conditions are (and which cells/ columns) then we can give you more detailed instructions. Hope this helps. Pete On Apr 28, 11:21 am, Graeme Wallace wrote: Hi, I wish to create a means of automating my cell shading - ie, I have a spreadsheet which uses a cell shaded either "red", "yellow" or "green" depending on its status. At present, when I enter in more data, I have to click on that cell, and then select the shading colour - a little boring and slow. I tried a Drop Down list, but that only uses text and no colour. Is there a way I can do this? I am a novice - so simple instructions are a must!! Thanks.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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