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Wildcard In Condtional Formatting.
Hello, Good Evening & Welcome
I have over 300 cells that can begin with any one of 3 letters. The rest of the cells can be anying. I am trying to conditionally format them so that each letter has its own colour. In the condtions box, I am selecting "formula is" and entering ="F*", but it is not working. Is this right or wrong. Can you actually have wildcards in CF. Thanking you in anticipation. -- Big Rick |
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Try something like this as one of your conditions ... It needs to be a formula
=LEFT(A1,1)="F" "Big Rick" wrote: Hello, Good Evening & Welcome I have over 300 cells that can begin with any one of 3 letters. The rest of the cells can be anying. I am trying to conditionally format them so that each letter has its own colour. In the condtions box, I am selecting "formula is" and entering ="F*", but it is not working. Is this right or wrong. Can you actually have wildcards in CF. Thanking you in anticipation. -- Big Rick |
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Using the "formula is" I got results using this formula:
=LEFT(B3,1)="F" ....where B3 is the cell in question. Or, you could enter all three letters like this: =OR(LEFT(B3,1)="F",LEFT(B3,1)="G",LEFT(B3,1)="H") |
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Many Many Thanks
I bow to your superior knowledge. -- Big Rick "Dave O" wrote: Using the "formula is" I got results using this formula: =LEFT(B3,1)="F" ....where B3 is the cell in question. Or, you could enter all three letters like this: =OR(LEFT(B3,1)="F",LEFT(B3,1)="G",LEFT(B3,1)="H") |
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