How can I request a cell containing anything with '' changes to a
different colour.

e.g
In Column A cells contain numbers, text and the following '1812,
'2493' etc... The ones with numbers change to green, the cells with
text to blue and the one with '' to yellow.

How can i perform this function in condition.

Please note, occasionally responses are sent as Macro, if in Macro, I
dont know anything about Macro which means I would notknow how to
start, open, edit, create etc Macros.

Thx

Gunj

You have to go into format_conditional formating
In all case the condition needs to be formula is not cell value is
If the first cell you apply the format to is A4 (this format can be
copied down with paste special formats to the other cells)

Condtion 1 choose green as a colour if it is true =ISNUMBER(A4)

Condtion 1 choose yellow as a colour if it is true
=ISNUMBER(SEARCH("",A4))

Condtion 3 choose red as a colour if it is true =ISTEXT(A3)

Regards

Dav


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Thank you, it works but as a follow on...

How do I copy ONLY the colours of this particular column to several
other columns in the same row without copying the entire format of this
column.

e.g.

Condition 1 is green as a colour if it is true =ISNUMBER(C4)
but I also require cells B4,D4,E4 F4 too to become green if the above
condition is met though these cells do not contain the same data as C4,
etc

Thank you, it works but as a follow on...

How do I copy ONLY the colours of this particular column to several
other columns in the same row without copying the entire format of this
column.

e.g.

Condition 1 is green as a colour if it is true =ISNUMBER(C4)
but I also require cells B4,D4,E4 F4 too to become green if the above
condition is met though these cells do not contain the same data as C4,
etc

Thx
Regards
Gunj