how to automatically color a cell
 

Dear jacko:

Try the conditional formatting feature of excel. It's under the Format menu.

There you can specify up to three conditions for formatting.

Hope that helps; if it does please rate my post.

G.Morales.

"jacko" wrote:

can i do that? my requirement is, based on a criteria (IF), if the criteria
is true then color the cell with color (any color)

Example: IF(A4=A5,red_color,no_fill)

if color code is required in this, pls do help to let me know how to get the
color code too...

billion thanks to expert out there :)