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I have a spreadsheet that has been in use for several years and has plenty of
formulas and information. Trying to improve this sheet I came up with the
idea of coloring some cells according to some criteria, so that the users
easily distinguish special conditions of some values.

The problem is that when I tried to apply the conditional formatting to
those cells, the option Conditional Formatting is greyed out in the Format
menu.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks in advance

Jorge Jaramillo
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Maybe the sheet is protected?
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I have a spreadsheet that has been in use for several years and has plenty of
formulas and information. Trying to improve this sheet I came up with the
idea of coloring some cells according to some criteria, so that the users
easily distinguish special conditions of some values.

The problem is that when I tried to apply the conditional formatting to
those cells, the option Conditional Formatting is greyed out in the Format
menu.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks in advance

Jorge Jaramillo

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Either the sheet is protected or the workbook is shared. Both of those lock
out CF.
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HTH...

Jim Thomlinson


"Jorge E. Jaramillo" wrote:

I have a spreadsheet that has been in use for several years and has plenty of
formulas and information. Trying to improve this sheet I came up with the
idea of coloring some cells according to some criteria, so that the users
easily distinguish special conditions of some values.

The problem is that when I tried to apply the conditional formatting to
those cells, the option Conditional Formatting is greyed out in the Format
menu.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks in advance

Jorge Jaramillo

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The workbook is shared and it needs to be so. What can i do to change those
formats and then go back to the normal conditions?

"Jim Thomlinson" wrote:

Either the sheet is protected or the workbook is shared. Both of those lock
out CF.
--
HTH...

Jim Thomlinson


"Jorge E. Jaramillo" wrote:

I have a spreadsheet that has been in use for several years and has plenty of
formulas and information. Trying to improve this sheet I came up with the
idea of coloring some cells according to some criteria, so that the users
easily distinguish special conditions of some values.

The problem is that when I tried to apply the conditional formatting to
those cells, the option Conditional Formatting is greyed out in the Format
menu.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks in advance

Jorge Jaramillo

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Unshare, apply your formatting, reshare.


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On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:08:02 -0700, Jorge E. Jaramillo
wrote:

The workbook is shared and it needs to be so. What can i do to change those
formats and then go back to the normal conditions?

"Jim Thomlinson" wrote:

Either the sheet is protected or the workbook is shared. Both of those lock
out CF.
--
HTH...

Jim Thomlinson


"Jorge E. Jaramillo" wrote:

I have a spreadsheet that has been in use for several years and has plenty of
formulas and information. Trying to improve this sheet I came up with the
idea of coloring some cells according to some criteria, so that the users
easily distinguish special conditions of some values.

The problem is that when I tried to apply the conditional formatting to
those cells, the option Conditional Formatting is greyed out in the Format
menu.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks in advance

Jorge Jaramillo




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Yes it is kind of obvious. Thanks.

Jorge E Jaramillo

"Gord Dibben" wrote:

Unshare, apply your formatting, reshare.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:08:02 -0700, Jorge E. Jaramillo
wrote:

The workbook is shared and it needs to be so. What can i do to change those
formats and then go back to the normal conditions?

"Jim Thomlinson" wrote:

Either the sheet is protected or the workbook is shared. Both of those lock
out CF.
--
HTH...

Jim Thomlinson


"Jorge E. Jaramillo" wrote:

I have a spreadsheet that has been in use for several years and has plenty of
formulas and information. Trying to improve this sheet I came up with the
idea of coloring some cells according to some criteria, so that the users
easily distinguish special conditions of some values.

The problem is that when I tried to apply the conditional formatting to
those cells, the option Conditional Formatting is greyed out in the Format
menu.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks in advance

Jorge Jaramillo



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Wish there were an easier method.

Gord

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:26:02 -0700, Jorge E. Jaramillo
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Yes it is kind of obvious. Thanks.

Jorge E Jaramillo

"Gord Dibben" wrote:

Unshare, apply your formatting, reshare.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:08:02 -0700, Jorge E. Jaramillo
wrote:

The workbook is shared and it needs to be so. What can i do to change those
formats and then go back to the normal conditions?

"Jim Thomlinson" wrote:

Either the sheet is protected or the workbook is shared. Both of those lock
out CF.
--
HTH...

Jim Thomlinson


"Jorge E. Jaramillo" wrote:

I have a spreadsheet that has been in use for several years and has plenty of
formulas and information. Trying to improve this sheet I came up with the
idea of coloring some cells according to some criteria, so that the users
easily distinguish special conditions of some values.

The problem is that when I tried to apply the conditional formatting to
those cells, the option Conditional Formatting is greyed out in the Format
menu.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks in advance

Jorge Jaramillo




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