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Does anyone know how to create a macro to do the following:

drop down menu

when nothing selected the following 4 cells appear clear, when one of
the two options selected the following 4 cells appear grey.

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as an example, select C10:F10 then do

Format=conditional formatting

change the cell value is to formula is and write a formula like



=$B$10<""

then select formatting and select pattern and grey

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Does anyone know how to create a macro to do the following:

drop down menu

when nothing selected the following 4 cells appear clear, when one of
the two options selected the following 4 cells appear grey.

Please see attached file


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I'm being a bit of a donkey, could u right the whole formula i need to
enter?


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I did.

It is working fine for me with B10. for C12:F12, the formula would be

=$B$12<""



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