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Conditional formatting: Colour coding
Hello,
I'm trying to set conditional formatting so that my spreadsheet has the following colour code: Cell Value Is equal to ="Low" FORMAT = Fill Green Cell Value Is equal to ="Medium" FORMAT = Fill Yellow Cell Value Is equal to ="High" FORMAT = Fill Red I know this sounds simple, but for some reason it's not working! I have those values in the Conditional Formatting box, but when i type High it doesn't highlight the cell red. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Many thanks, |
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Conditional formatting: Colour coding
Ensure that you do not have doubled the quotation marks in the assigned box
it should read : ="Medium" and not: =""Medium"" also be sure that you formated the cells with the actual criteria, and not ones next to them. "Kelly" wrote: Hello, I'm trying to set conditional formatting so that my spreadsheet has the following colour code: Cell Value Is equal to ="Low" FORMAT = Fill Green Cell Value Is equal to ="Medium" FORMAT = Fill Yellow Cell Value Is equal to ="High" FORMAT = Fill Red I know this sounds simple, but for some reason it's not working! I have those values in the Conditional Formatting box, but when i type High it doesn't highlight the cell red. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Many thanks, |
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Conditional formatting: Colour coding
Hi,
Thanks for the advice. I've checked that they only have single speech marks (e.g. "Medium") but for some reason it only seems to remember the first condition i put in. As soon as i add a 2nd and 3rd condition, it only applies them once and doesn't work again after that one time. Then when i go back into conditional formatting it has only saved my "Low" condition but it doesn't seem to keep the "Medium" and "High" conditions? I'm not sure if i'm just missing something! "ufo_pilot" wrote: Ensure that you do not have doubled the quotation marks in the assigned box it should read : ="Medium" and not: =""Medium"" also be sure that you formated the cells with the actual criteria, and not ones next to them. "Kelly" wrote: Hello, I'm trying to set conditional formatting so that my spreadsheet has the following colour code: Cell Value Is equal to ="Low" FORMAT = Fill Green Cell Value Is equal to ="Medium" FORMAT = Fill Yellow Cell Value Is equal to ="High" FORMAT = Fill Red I know this sounds simple, but for some reason it's not working! I have those values in the Conditional Formatting box, but when i type High it doesn't highlight the cell red. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Many thanks, |
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Conditional formatting: Colour coding
If your words : Low, Medium and High are all in the same column,
then scroll over the whole column that contain your words ( or rows for that matter) while they are highlighted, do the 3 conditional formats, this should work unless there is a spelling error. You could instesd of typing the words into the conditional formatting also refer to three different cells that have the words Low, Medium and high in them - away from where you are working Ie: say you have the word Low in cell AA1, Medium in AA2, and High in AA3 then you could reference the cells instead of typing them - that eliminates spelling issues. "Kelly" wrote: Hi, Thanks for the advice. I've checked that they only have single speech marks (e.g. "Medium") but for some reason it only seems to remember the first condition i put in. As soon as i add a 2nd and 3rd condition, it only applies them once and doesn't work again after that one time. Then when i go back into conditional formatting it has only saved my "Low" condition but it doesn't seem to keep the "Medium" and "High" conditions? I'm not sure if i'm just missing something! "ufo_pilot" wrote: Ensure that you do not have doubled the quotation marks in the assigned box it should read : ="Medium" and not: =""Medium"" also be sure that you formated the cells with the actual criteria, and not ones next to them. "Kelly" wrote: Hello, I'm trying to set conditional formatting so that my spreadsheet has the following colour code: Cell Value Is equal to ="Low" FORMAT = Fill Green Cell Value Is equal to ="Medium" FORMAT = Fill Yellow Cell Value Is equal to ="High" FORMAT = Fill Red I know this sounds simple, but for some reason it's not working! I have those values in the Conditional Formatting box, but when i type High it doesn't highlight the cell red. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Many thanks, |
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Conditional formatting: Colour coding
That's what i was doing wrong! I highlighted the 2 colums where those values
are entered and it now works. Thanks :-) "ufo_pilot" wrote: If your words : Low, Medium and High are all in the same column, then scroll over the whole column that contain your words ( or rows for that matter) while they are highlighted, do the 3 conditional formats, this should work unless there is a spelling error. You could instesd of typing the words into the conditional formatting also refer to three different cells that have the words Low, Medium and high in them - away from where you are working Ie: say you have the word Low in cell AA1, Medium in AA2, and High in AA3 then you could reference the cells instead of typing them - that eliminates spelling issues. "Kelly" wrote: Hi, Thanks for the advice. I've checked that they only have single speech marks (e.g. "Medium") but for some reason it only seems to remember the first condition i put in. As soon as i add a 2nd and 3rd condition, it only applies them once and doesn't work again after that one time. Then when i go back into conditional formatting it has only saved my "Low" condition but it doesn't seem to keep the "Medium" and "High" conditions? I'm not sure if i'm just missing something! "ufo_pilot" wrote: Ensure that you do not have doubled the quotation marks in the assigned box it should read : ="Medium" and not: =""Medium"" also be sure that you formated the cells with the actual criteria, and not ones next to them. "Kelly" wrote: Hello, I'm trying to set conditional formatting so that my spreadsheet has the following colour code: Cell Value Is equal to ="Low" FORMAT = Fill Green Cell Value Is equal to ="Medium" FORMAT = Fill Yellow Cell Value Is equal to ="High" FORMAT = Fill Red I know this sounds simple, but for some reason it's not working! I have those values in the Conditional Formatting box, but when i type High it doesn't highlight the cell red. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Many thanks, |
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