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I am setting up a spreadsheet o track my store's daily sales. What I am
trying to do is to change the color of the cells depending on what the sales
total for the day is. For example if the daily total is $0 the cell would be
red, if the daily total was not zero the cell would be green. Any help?
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conditional formatting would be the way to do this. See Debra Dagleish's
page showing the basics:

http://www.contextures.com/xlCondFormat01.html

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I am setting up a spreadsheet o track my store's daily sales. What I am
trying to do is to change the color of the cells depending on what the

sales
total for the day is. For example if the daily total is $0 the cell would

be
red, if the daily total was not zero the cell would be green. Any help?



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