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I'm attempting to do some conditional formatting on text. I need to
highlight cells by itself that contain any text in the cell .
is this possible?


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Possible. REfer the below link for help

Cell value is "text" (within quotes).

http://www.contextures.com/xlCondFormat01.html
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I'm attempting to do some conditional formatting on text. I need to
highlight cells by itself that contain any text in the cell .
is this possible?


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Any text?

CFFormula is: =ISTEXT(A1)

Anything?

CFFormula is: =A1<""


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I'm attempting to do some conditional formatting on text. I need to
highlight cells by itself that contain any text in the cell .
is this possible?


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Thank you..it really helps

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Any text?

CFFormula is: =ISTEXT(A1)

Anything?

CFFormula is: =A1<""


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I'm attempting to do some conditional formatting on text. I need to
highlight cells by itself that contain any text in the cell .
is this possible?



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