Excel's predefined conditional formatting, such asData Bars,Color ScalesandIcon Sets, are mainly purposed to format cells based on their own values. If you want to apply conditional formatting based on another cell or format an entire row based on a single cell's value, then you will need ...
Learn about simple conditional formatting formulas that let you highlight data based on any values in Excel.
It also allows you to apply formatting basis on the cell values such as colours, icons and data bars. For this, we will create a rule in Conditional Formatting.Example:Let’s understand this function using conditional formatting in an example....
Using a Preset Rule with Custom Formatting Select the same cell range (F6:F13). Go to Home > Conditional Formatting > Highlight Cell Rules > Greater Than. In the Greater Than dialog box, enter 3550 as the comparison value. Choose custom formatting: bold italic font and light green fill co...
In this tutorial, I will show you how to copy conditional formatting from one cell to another cell in Excel. I will cover multiple ways to do this – such as simple copy-paste, copy and paste conditional formatting only, and using the format painter. So let’s get started! This Tutorial...
Cell D1: Month Cell E1: Units Then, type a list of the month names in cells D2 to D13 Next, type amounts in cells E2 to E13, using the sample data shown below as your guide Type Rule Amounts on Worksheet When you're setting limits for your conditional formatting rules, those limi...
The cell with the highest value is assigned a color, the cell with the lowest value is assigned with another one, and all cells in between are assigned a mix of these two colors. You can also choose formatting with three colors; the middle value would be assigned to the third color. Se...
Method 2 – Conditional Formatting on Multiple Columns Based on Multiple Values of Another CellThe steps are the same as Example 1.Select all the columns on which you want to apply Conditional Formatting.We have selected columns B, C, E and G....
Here are some examples of how the conditional formatting would work: Also read:Excel Conditional Formatting Based on Another Cell 4. Highlighting Errors/Blanks If you work with a lot of numerical data and calculations in Excel, you’d know the importance of identifying and treating cells that ha...
Conditional formatting based on another cell 2 Thread starter Jkaen Start date Aug 8, 2003 Not open for further replies. Aug 8, 2003 #1 Jkaen Chemical Aug 1, 2003 43 Using search it seems that there isnt a way to do this, but people seem to find very clever ways of getting ...