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Turning green
On a spreadsheet we have a column which simply has the answer Yes or No.
In a row where the answer in that column is "Yes", I'd like the first 2 columns to turn green. Any ideas, please? Thanks. |
Turning green
try this:
say you're in cell c2 somewhere in your spreadsheet, put the words "Yes" and "No" (without quotes) & change them to white text OR hide the column. note the location of these 2 words. in my sample i put them in T1 & T2. select a2:b2 format, conditional formatting choose "formula is" and enter =$C2=$T$1 and choose the shading formatting then click "add" choose "formula is" again and enter =$C2=$T$2 and choose "no fill" shading formatting hit ok try it out if it works, highlight a2:b2 & drag down formatting as low as you want. check one cell by opening conditional formatting again & make sure the row # changed as you dragged it down. :) susan On Apr 20, 7:40 am, bollard wrote: On a spreadsheet we have a column which simply has the answer Yes or No. In a row where the answer in that column is "Yes", I'd like the first 2 columns to turn green. Any ideas, please? Thanks. |
Turning green
Hi Susan.
I don't understand what you mean. Let me clarify what's whe The applicant's name appears in A2 and B2. The Yes/No data is in column M. Surely I can use an IF condition, which includes $M$2="Yes" somewhere? "Susan" wrote: try this: say you're in cell c2 somewhere in your spreadsheet, put the words "Yes" and "No" (without quotes) & change them to white text OR hide the column. note the location of these 2 words. in my sample i put them in T1 & T2. select a2:b2 format, conditional formatting choose "formula is" and enter =$C2=$T$1 and choose the shading formatting then click "add" choose "formula is" again and enter =$C2=$T$2 and choose "no fill" shading formatting hit ok try it out if it works, highlight a2:b2 & drag down formatting as low as you want. check one cell by opening conditional formatting again & make sure the row # changed as you dragged it down. :) susan On Apr 20, 7:40 am, bollard wrote: On a spreadsheet we have a column which simply has the answer Yes or No. In a row where the answer in that column is "Yes", I'd like the first 2 columns to turn green. Any ideas, please? Thanks. |
Turning green
Highlight cells A2 and B2. Follow the Excel menu path Format / Conditional
Formatting. Change the first drop down field to "Formula Is." Then enter the formula =$M2="Yes" in the next field. Then click on the Format button and set the format to what you want the cell to be if the value is Yes. Then click on Okay until you are back to Excel. A2 and B2 should now be whatever format you set if the value in $M2 = Yes. Use the format painter to copy this format to whatever other cells you want. Hope that helps. "bollard" wrote: Hi Susan. I don't understand what you mean. Let me clarify what's whe The applicant's name appears in A2 and B2. The Yes/No data is in column M. Surely I can use an IF condition, which includes $M$2="Yes" somewhere? "Susan" wrote: try this: say you're in cell c2 somewhere in your spreadsheet, put the words "Yes" and "No" (without quotes) & change them to white text OR hide the column. note the location of these 2 words. in my sample i put them in T1 & T2. select a2:b2 format, conditional formatting choose "formula is" and enter =$C2=$T$1 and choose the shading formatting then click "add" choose "formula is" again and enter =$C2=$T$2 and choose "no fill" shading formatting hit ok try it out if it works, highlight a2:b2 & drag down formatting as low as you want. check one cell by opening conditional formatting again & make sure the row # changed as you dragged it down. :) susan On Apr 20, 7:40 am, bollard wrote: On a spreadsheet we have a column which simply has the answer Yes or No. In a row where the answer in that column is "Yes", I'd like the first 2 columns to turn green. Any ideas, please? Thanks. |
Turning green
Hi William
I've just tried that and it doesn't seem to work. "William Horton" wrote: Highlight cells A2 and B2. Follow the Excel menu path Format / Conditional Formatting. Change the first drop down field to "Formula Is." Then enter the formula =$M2="Yes" in the next field. Then click on the Format button and set the format to what you want the cell to be if the value is Yes. Then click on Okay until you are back to Excel. A2 and B2 should now be whatever format you set if the value in $M2 = Yes. Use the format painter to copy this format to whatever other cells you want. Hope that helps. "bollard" wrote: Hi Susan. I don't understand what you mean. Let me clarify what's whe The applicant's name appears in A2 and B2. The Yes/No data is in column M. Surely I can use an IF condition, which includes $M$2="Yes" somewhere? "Susan" wrote: try this: say you're in cell c2 somewhere in your spreadsheet, put the words "Yes" and "No" (without quotes) & change them to white text OR hide the column. note the location of these 2 words. in my sample i put them in T1 & T2. select a2:b2 format, conditional formatting choose "formula is" and enter =$C2=$T$1 and choose the shading formatting then click "add" choose "formula is" again and enter =$C2=$T$2 and choose "no fill" shading formatting hit ok try it out if it works, highlight a2:b2 & drag down formatting as low as you want. check one cell by opening conditional formatting again & make sure the row # changed as you dragged it down. :) susan On Apr 20, 7:40 am, bollard wrote: On a spreadsheet we have a column which simply has the answer Yes or No. In a row where the answer in that column is "Yes", I'd like the first 2 columns to turn green. Any ideas, please? Thanks. |
Turning green
It's working for me on my Excel (Excel 2003). Go back into Format /
Conditional Formattingt and recheck the formula. Ensure that it is exactly as I posted before. Sometimes Excel adds quotes by mistake and I have to go back in and delete them. Try that. "bollard" wrote: Hi William I've just tried that and it doesn't seem to work. "William Horton" wrote: Highlight cells A2 and B2. Follow the Excel menu path Format / Conditional Formatting. Change the first drop down field to "Formula Is." Then enter the formula =$M2="Yes" in the next field. Then click on the Format button and set the format to what you want the cell to be if the value is Yes. Then click on Okay until you are back to Excel. A2 and B2 should now be whatever format you set if the value in $M2 = Yes. Use the format painter to copy this format to whatever other cells you want. Hope that helps. "bollard" wrote: Hi Susan. I don't understand what you mean. Let me clarify what's whe The applicant's name appears in A2 and B2. The Yes/No data is in column M. Surely I can use an IF condition, which includes $M$2="Yes" somewhere? "Susan" wrote: try this: say you're in cell c2 somewhere in your spreadsheet, put the words "Yes" and "No" (without quotes) & change them to white text OR hide the column. note the location of these 2 words. in my sample i put them in T1 & T2. select a2:b2 format, conditional formatting choose "formula is" and enter =$C2=$T$1 and choose the shading formatting then click "add" choose "formula is" again and enter =$C2=$T$2 and choose "no fill" shading formatting hit ok try it out if it works, highlight a2:b2 & drag down formatting as low as you want. check one cell by opening conditional formatting again & make sure the row # changed as you dragged it down. :) susan On Apr 20, 7:40 am, bollard wrote: On a spreadsheet we have a column which simply has the answer Yes or No. In a row where the answer in that column is "Yes", I'd like the first 2 columns to turn green. Any ideas, please? Thanks. |
Turning green
Hi William
No, I've checked and there's just the one set of inverted commas. It isn't working. I've tried formatting column M so that the Yes and No are treated as general, or as text etc and nothing seems to make any difference. "William Horton" wrote: Highlight cells A2 and B2. Follow the Excel menu path Format / Conditional Formatting. Change the first drop down field to "Formula Is." Then enter the formula =$M2="Yes" in the next field. Then click on the Format button and set the format to what you want the cell to be if the value is Yes. Then click on Okay until you are back to Excel. A2 and B2 should now be whatever format you set if the value in $M2 = Yes. Use the format painter to copy this format to whatever other cells you want. Hope that helps. "bollard" wrote: Hi Susan. I don't understand what you mean. Let me clarify what's whe The applicant's name appears in A2 and B2. The Yes/No data is in column M. Surely I can use an IF condition, which includes $M$2="Yes" somewhere? "Susan" wrote: try this: say you're in cell c2 somewhere in your spreadsheet, put the words "Yes" and "No" (without quotes) & change them to white text OR hide the column. note the location of these 2 words. in my sample i put them in T1 & T2. select a2:b2 format, conditional formatting choose "formula is" and enter =$C2=$T$1 and choose the shading formatting then click "add" choose "formula is" again and enter =$C2=$T$2 and choose "no fill" shading formatting hit ok try it out if it works, highlight a2:b2 & drag down formatting as low as you want. check one cell by opening conditional formatting again & make sure the row # changed as you dragged it down. :) susan On Apr 20, 7:40 am, bollard wrote: On a spreadsheet we have a column which simply has the answer Yes or No. In a row where the answer in that column is "Yes", I'd like the first 2 columns to turn green. Any ideas, please? Thanks. |
Turning green
Inverted commas??? Make sure there are quotes " around the word Yes. Also,
did you remember to set a format if your condition is true? And if so is it a format that you would be able to differentiate from the regular formula? Recheck your conditional format. You may also try practicing in another blank worksheet. Try with the simple conditional formatting of cell value equals and once you get that to work move on from there to the Formula Is option. I set my spreadsheet up with names in A2 and B2 and the word Yes in M2. Then when I put the conditional formula Formula Is =$M2="Yes" in cells A2 and B2 and then set the conditional format for those cells to a font color of green it works. When the word Yes is in M2 the cells turn green and when it is anything else they go back to normal font. There must be something small you are missing. "bollard" wrote: Hi William No, I've checked and there's just the one set of inverted commas. It isn't working. I've tried formatting column M so that the Yes and No are treated as general, or as text etc and nothing seems to make any difference. "William Horton" wrote: Highlight cells A2 and B2. Follow the Excel menu path Format / Conditional Formatting. Change the first drop down field to "Formula Is." Then enter the formula =$M2="Yes" in the next field. Then click on the Format button and set the format to what you want the cell to be if the value is Yes. Then click on Okay until you are back to Excel. A2 and B2 should now be whatever format you set if the value in $M2 = Yes. Use the format painter to copy this format to whatever other cells you want. Hope that helps. "bollard" wrote: Hi Susan. I don't understand what you mean. Let me clarify what's whe The applicant's name appears in A2 and B2. The Yes/No data is in column M. Surely I can use an IF condition, which includes $M$2="Yes" somewhere? "Susan" wrote: try this: say you're in cell c2 somewhere in your spreadsheet, put the words "Yes" and "No" (without quotes) & change them to white text OR hide the column. note the location of these 2 words. in my sample i put them in T1 & T2. select a2:b2 format, conditional formatting choose "formula is" and enter =$C2=$T$1 and choose the shading formatting then click "add" choose "formula is" again and enter =$C2=$T$2 and choose "no fill" shading formatting hit ok try it out if it works, highlight a2:b2 & drag down formatting as low as you want. check one cell by opening conditional formatting again & make sure the row # changed as you dragged it down. :) susan On Apr 20, 7:40 am, bollard wrote: On a spreadsheet we have a column which simply has the answer Yes or No. In a row where the answer in that column is "Yes", I'd like the first 2 columns to turn green. Any ideas, please? Thanks. |
Turning green
Hi William
Inverted commas = quotes, sorry! I'll try it in another sheet. At one point I tried placing an apostrophe before the words yes and No in the bar at the top of the page and that appeared to work at fiurst, but then it didn't work next time. The spreadhseet was originally set up from a CSV file. I'm not sure if that is messing things up. I may try sending the sheet home and importing it afresh into Excel and trying from there. It seems such a stupidly simple thing, yet it's proving so stubborn! "William Horton" wrote: Inverted commas??? Make sure there are quotes " around the word Yes. Also, did you remember to set a format if your condition is true? And if so is it a format that you would be able to differentiate from the regular formula? Recheck your conditional format. You may also try practicing in another blank worksheet. Try with the simple conditional formatting of cell value equals and once you get that to work move on from there to the Formula Is option. I set my spreadsheet up with names in A2 and B2 and the word Yes in M2. Then when I put the conditional formula Formula Is =$M2="Yes" in cells A2 and B2 and then set the conditional format for those cells to a font color of green it works. When the word Yes is in M2 the cells turn green and when it is anything else they go back to normal font. There must be something small you are missing. "bollard" wrote: Hi William No, I've checked and there's just the one set of inverted commas. It isn't working. I've tried formatting column M so that the Yes and No are treated as general, or as text etc and nothing seems to make any difference. "William Horton" wrote: Highlight cells A2 and B2. Follow the Excel menu path Format / Conditional Formatting. Change the first drop down field to "Formula Is." Then enter the formula =$M2="Yes" in the next field. Then click on the Format button and set the format to what you want the cell to be if the value is Yes. Then click on Okay until you are back to Excel. A2 and B2 should now be whatever format you set if the value in $M2 = Yes. Use the format painter to copy this format to whatever other cells you want. Hope that helps. "bollard" wrote: Hi Susan. I don't understand what you mean. Let me clarify what's whe The applicant's name appears in A2 and B2. The Yes/No data is in column M. Surely I can use an IF condition, which includes $M$2="Yes" somewhere? "Susan" wrote: try this: say you're in cell c2 somewhere in your spreadsheet, put the words "Yes" and "No" (without quotes) & change them to white text OR hide the column. note the location of these 2 words. in my sample i put them in T1 & T2. select a2:b2 format, conditional formatting choose "formula is" and enter =$C2=$T$1 and choose the shading formatting then click "add" choose "formula is" again and enter =$C2=$T$2 and choose "no fill" shading formatting hit ok try it out if it works, highlight a2:b2 & drag down formatting as low as you want. check one cell by opening conditional formatting again & make sure the row # changed as you dragged it down. :) susan On Apr 20, 7:40 am, bollard wrote: On a spreadsheet we have a column which simply has the answer Yes or No. In a row where the answer in that column is "Yes", I'd like the first 2 columns to turn green. Any ideas, please? Thanks. |
Turning green
Make sure you haven't got spare spaces or other non-printing characters in
M2. Does =LEN(M2) give you the answer 3? Also double check that you've got "Formula Is" in your CF, not "Cell value is". -- David Biddulph "bollard" wrote in message ... Hi William No, I've checked and there's just the one set of inverted commas. It isn't working. I've tried formatting column M so that the Yes and No are treated as general, or as text etc and nothing seems to make any difference. "William Horton" wrote: Highlight cells A2 and B2. Follow the Excel menu path Format / Conditional Formatting. Change the first drop down field to "Formula Is." Then enter the formula =$M2="Yes" in the next field. Then click on the Format button and set the format to what you want the cell to be if the value is Yes. Then click on Okay until you are back to Excel. A2 and B2 should now be whatever format you set if the value in $M2 = Yes. Use the format painter to copy this format to whatever other cells you want. Hope that helps. "bollard" wrote: Hi Susan. I don't understand what you mean. Let me clarify what's whe The applicant's name appears in A2 and B2. The Yes/No data is in column M. Surely I can use an IF condition, which includes $M$2="Yes" somewhere? "Susan" wrote: try this: say you're in cell c2 somewhere in your spreadsheet, put the words "Yes" and "No" (without quotes) & change them to white text OR hide the column. note the location of these 2 words. in my sample i put them in T1 & T2. select a2:b2 format, conditional formatting choose "formula is" and enter =$C2=$T$1 and choose the shading formatting then click "add" choose "formula is" again and enter =$C2=$T$2 and choose "no fill" shading formatting hit ok try it out if it works, highlight a2:b2 & drag down formatting as low as you want. check one cell by opening conditional formatting again & make sure the row # changed as you dragged it down. :) susan On Apr 20, 7:40 am, bollard wrote: On a spreadsheet we have a column which simply has the answer Yes or No. In a row where the answer in that column is "Yes", I'd like the first 2 columns to turn green. Any ideas, please? Thanks. |
Turning green
Hi David
That's very interesting! When I run the LEN formula, every No shows up as 3 and every Yes as 4. What can I do to overcome this? "David Biddulph" wrote: Make sure you haven't got spare spaces or other non-printing characters in M2. Does =LEN(M2) give you the answer 3? Also double check that you've got "Formula Is" in your CF, not "Cell value is". -- David Biddulph "bollard" wrote in message ... Hi William No, I've checked and there's just the one set of inverted commas. It isn't working. I've tried formatting column M so that the Yes and No are treated as general, or as text etc and nothing seems to make any difference. "William Horton" wrote: Highlight cells A2 and B2. Follow the Excel menu path Format / Conditional Formatting. Change the first drop down field to "Formula Is." Then enter the formula =$M2="Yes" in the next field. Then click on the Format button and set the format to what you want the cell to be if the value is Yes. Then click on Okay until you are back to Excel. A2 and B2 should now be whatever format you set if the value in $M2 = Yes. Use the format painter to copy this format to whatever other cells you want. Hope that helps. "bollard" wrote: Hi Susan. I don't understand what you mean. Let me clarify what's whe The applicant's name appears in A2 and B2. The Yes/No data is in column M. Surely I can use an IF condition, which includes $M$2="Yes" somewhere? "Susan" wrote: try this: say you're in cell c2 somewhere in your spreadsheet, put the words "Yes" and "No" (without quotes) & change them to white text OR hide the column. note the location of these 2 words. in my sample i put them in T1 & T2. select a2:b2 format, conditional formatting choose "formula is" and enter =$C2=$T$1 and choose the shading formatting then click "add" choose "formula is" again and enter =$C2=$T$2 and choose "no fill" shading formatting hit ok try it out if it works, highlight a2:b2 & drag down formatting as low as you want. check one cell by opening conditional formatting again & make sure the row # changed as you dragged it down. :) susan On Apr 20, 7:40 am, bollard wrote: On a spreadsheet we have a column which simply has the answer Yes or No. In a row where the answer in that column is "Yes", I'd like the first 2 columns to turn green. Any ideas, please? Thanks. |
Turning green
Oh, that must be why it isn't working. There must be a space before or after
your Yes and No in column M. If you fix that the conditional format should work. Or you could adjust the conditional format to be " Yes" or "Yes " depending on where the space is in column M. Hopefully that will do it. "bollard" wrote: Hi David That's very interesting! When I run the LEN formula, every No shows up as 3 and every Yes as 4. What can I do to overcome this? "David Biddulph" wrote: Make sure you haven't got spare spaces or other non-printing characters in M2. Does =LEN(M2) give you the answer 3? Also double check that you've got "Formula Is" in your CF, not "Cell value is". -- David Biddulph "bollard" wrote in message ... Hi William No, I've checked and there's just the one set of inverted commas. It isn't working. I've tried formatting column M so that the Yes and No are treated as general, or as text etc and nothing seems to make any difference. "William Horton" wrote: Highlight cells A2 and B2. Follow the Excel menu path Format / Conditional Formatting. Change the first drop down field to "Formula Is." Then enter the formula =$M2="Yes" in the next field. Then click on the Format button and set the format to what you want the cell to be if the value is Yes. Then click on Okay until you are back to Excel. A2 and B2 should now be whatever format you set if the value in $M2 = Yes. Use the format painter to copy this format to whatever other cells you want. Hope that helps. "bollard" wrote: Hi Susan. I don't understand what you mean. Let me clarify what's whe The applicant's name appears in A2 and B2. The Yes/No data is in column M. Surely I can use an IF condition, which includes $M$2="Yes" somewhere? "Susan" wrote: try this: say you're in cell c2 somewhere in your spreadsheet, put the words "Yes" and "No" (without quotes) & change them to white text OR hide the column. note the location of these 2 words. in my sample i put them in T1 & T2. select a2:b2 format, conditional formatting choose "formula is" and enter =$C2=$T$1 and choose the shading formatting then click "add" choose "formula is" again and enter =$C2=$T$2 and choose "no fill" shading formatting hit ok try it out if it works, highlight a2:b2 & drag down formatting as low as you want. check one cell by opening conditional formatting again & make sure the row # changed as you dragged it down. :) susan On Apr 20, 7:40 am, bollard wrote: On a spreadsheet we have a column which simply has the answer Yes or No. In a row where the answer in that column is "Yes", I'd like the first 2 columns to turn green. Any ideas, please? Thanks. |
Turning green
Oh, that must be why it isn't working.
There must be a space before or after your Yes and No in column M. If you fix that the conditional format should work. william - great idea - i never would have thought to check that as to why it wouldn't work. i'll keep it in mind for the future. :) susan |
Turning green
You may get somewhere with functions like TRIM and CLEAN, but if your
spurious extra character is consistently at one end or the other of the string you might use =LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-1) or =RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-1) as applicable. -- David Biddulph "bollard" wrote in message ... Hi David That's very interesting! When I run the LEN formula, every No shows up as 3 and every Yes as 4. What can I do to overcome this? "David Biddulph" wrote: Make sure you haven't got spare spaces or other non-printing characters in M2. Does =LEN(M2) give you the answer 3? Also double check that you've got "Formula Is" in your CF, not "Cell value is". -- David Biddulph |
Turning green
Many thanks David. Very helpful.
"David Biddulph" wrote: You may get somewhere with functions like TRIM and CLEAN, but if your spurious extra character is consistently at one end or the other of the string you might use =LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-1) or =RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-1) as applicable. -- David Biddulph "bollard" wrote in message ... Hi David That's very interesting! When I run the LEN formula, every No shows up as 3 and every Yes as 4. What can I do to overcome this? "David Biddulph" wrote: Make sure you haven't got spare spaces or other non-printing characters in M2. Does =LEN(M2) give you the answer 3? Also double check that you've got "Formula Is" in your CF, not "Cell value is". -- David Biddulph |
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