I have an Excel spreadsheet and in it I enter dates (creating ledgers). We
highlight (manually) each line of data containing the March balances.

I'd love to use conditional formatting to do this for me, but can't figure
out how. The only thing I want it to be able to do is highlight
(pattern=yellow) any and every cell that contains the month march (it will
only be entered as a date code, so month=3).

Thanks
Chris

Select all the cells, goto to FormatConditional Formatting, and set the
option to Equal to and a value of 3.

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RP
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"chrismears" wrote in message
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I have an Excel spreadsheet and in it I enter dates (creating ledgers).
We
highlight (manually) each line of data containing the March balances.

I'd love to use conditional formatting to do this for me, but can't figure
out how. The only thing I want it to be able to do is highlight
(pattern=yellow) any and every cell that contains the month march (it will
only be entered as a date code, so month=3).

Thanks
Chris

Tried this (no luck). Dates are complete (yyyy-mm-dd), but formatted to show
as only (mmm-yy).

tried to apply a conditional formatting formula, but either it highlighted
everything, or just nothing. Thanks for the help!

i used this in a formula

=MONTH($A1)=3

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Gary


"chrismears" wrote in message
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Tried this (no luck). Dates are complete (yyyy-mm-dd), but formatted to
show
as only (mmm-yy).

tried to apply a conditional formatting formula, but either it highlighted
everything, or just nothing. Thanks for the help!

Try inputting a formula in the conditional formatting =month(a1)=3
If it works copy and paste formatting only to relevant cells

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In that case, use a formula of =MONTH(A1)=3

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HTH

RP
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"chrismears" wrote in message
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Tried this (no luck). Dates are complete (yyyy-mm-dd), but formatted to
show
as only (mmm-yy).

tried to apply a conditional formatting formula, but either it highlighted
everything, or just nothing. Thanks for the help!

To quote the Dire Straits song, "That's the way you do it!"

Tried it and it works wonderfully, I was so close. Thanks guys!

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

In that case, use a formula of =MONTH(A1)=3

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HTH

RP
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"chrismears" wrote in message
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Tried this (no luck). Dates are complete (yyyy-mm-dd), but formatted to
show
as only (mmm-yy).

tried to apply a conditional formatting formula, but either it highlighted
everything, or just nothing. Thanks for the help!