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Default Conditional Formating Furmula

Spot on and silly me forgot about data valadation

Thanks


"JLatham" wrote:

You can deal with this with conditional formatting or data validation, or both.

Formula for conditional formatting (for cell A1)
=LEN(A1)<14
and set your format for the not-14-characters condition.

You can also use Data Validation and use 'Text Length', 'exactly' and enter
14 as the length.


"jockj215" wrote:

I have to enter a 14 digit licence number in a field this is a mix of numbers
and leters. can some one please give me a formula that i can use in
conditional formating tol show if there are to few or to many digits. (Using
excel 2003) Thaks in advance.

 
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