Hi All
I must be thick headed; I have looked through most of the posts here for
help and some come very close to answering my question, or maybe its just me!

I have the three conditional formatting settings in cell H1 based on the
value of cell A1. Please note there is no value in H1, no number or letter,
just the pattern color. I was hoping not to / do not want to use VB editor to
create some master code for the work sheet. I just want to use a FORMULA in
H1 to change the cell (H1) color based on the number value in cell A1.

Like =IF(A1=5,".ColorIndex = 6",IF(A1=6,".ColorIndex = 7"))
(Numbers 1 €“ 10 would each have a different color, 1-red, 2-blue, 3-green,
and so on)

Now for the thick headed part, if a formula can not change a cell color is
there ANY other way to do this other than some code sheet, VB editing,
monster in Excel 2003?

Thanks for taking the time to look this over, and if I need to wrestle with
the code monster will you all be there to guide me through, PLEASE?
Dan