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Hi

I have put 2 conditional formats in a range of cells (A1:C5), i.e:

Condition 1: Cell Value Is greater than 10, blue pattern.
Condition 2: Cell Value Is less than 50, red font colour.

When i put number 5, it changed to red; 30 blue pattern. But why if I
put a text (e.g : N), it'll change to blue pattern also?

Kindly help me to solve this confussion .
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When i put number 5, it changed to red; 30 blue pattern. But why if I
put a text (e.g : N), it'll change to blue pattern also?


Because TEXT evaluates to be greater than ANY numeric value. Why is it like
that? I don't know, ask the programmers why they did that!

What you can do is use the Formula Is option and use something like this:

=AND(ISNUMBER(A1),A110)

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Hi

I have put 2 conditional formats in a range of cells (A1:C5), i.e:

Condition 1: Cell Value Is greater than 10, blue pattern.
Condition 2: Cell Value Is less than 50, red font colour.

When i put number 5, it changed to red; 30 blue pattern. But why if I
put a text (e.g : N), it'll change to blue pattern also?

Kindly help me to solve this confussion .
Thanks


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Thanks for your help. Done for now ;)


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You're welcome!

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