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cjjoo
 
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the problem i am facing now is that i wan to assign different colours to
cells that has the return value of "good", "ok" and "bad". is there a
way to do that?

for instance,

in b2:b4, i got good, good, bad and okie. now i wan to colour the cells
according to their status.

good= green

okie =yellow

bad= red

can anyone help me with this?


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You can use Conditional Formatting as long as you just have 3
colors being added by the conditions.
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/condfmt.htm
and if you have high speed access (Macromedia flash (swf) presentation)
http://www.datapigtechnologies.com/f...rmatexcel.html

Your name and correct capitalization and spelling would be a lot
easier reading.

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the problem i am facing now is that i wan to assign different colours to
cells that has the return value of "good", "ok" and "bad". is there a
way to do that?

for instance,

in b2:b4, i got good, good, bad and okie. now i wan to colour the cells
according to their status.

good= green

okie =yellow

bad= red

can anyone help me with this?


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