So, I'm looking for a way to make the cell(s) highlight themselves based on todays date, nothing too fancy just so it's simpler to see the day. Pictured below is the graph I currently have.
What I've got
I know it'd be easier for the formula if I were to just format the date as mm/dd/yy or some form of that, but it works better visually for the purpose of the form if it is done this way. So is there a way I could make it work how it is now? If not then what would be best with the formatting done in a mm/dd/yy format? Thank you in advance :)
Use this custom CF formula rule-
=AND(A1=DAY(TODAY()),A$2=TEXT(TODAY(),"MMMM"))
try on range A2:Z:
=A$2&A3=TEXT(TODAY(); "mmmmd")
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I know this is kind of an odd question, but I have a list of urls that I need to cycle through and display that url in a separate cell, and it needs to automatically change each day. And then finally, once it reached the end of the list to go back to the top of the list.
Is this something that is even possible to accomplish on Google Sheets, or do I need to take a completely different approach?
EDIT: Here is a rough example of what I am trying to do, and I honestly don't know where to start, so I haven't tried much yet. I know how to display the last row in a column, but I cant figure out how to auto change that last row each day. I feel like the best way to do this would be to either move the top row to the bottom each day, or vice versa, but I have no idea how to accomplish this.
Please let me know if you have any suggestions/if I can clarify anything... Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
Yes this very much possible, I have made one example sheet for you and you can make copy of the same.
Example Sheet.
E2 Contains Today's date, F2 contains date for comparison, G2 is the difference between 2 dates which will go on increasing daily, there will be automatic increment in the Column H.
Based on daily increment in Column H you will get your Urls in Column B.
You don't need to start list from the beginning again, you can go on adding list in Column A. However still if you will need then you can manipulate formulas by comparing another date.
Hope this will work for you.
Haven't gotten any help through the Google Product Forums, so I'll try here. I've never had issues with this before so not sure what I'm missing now. I can't seem to make a rather simple formula work and I have no idea why.
For some reason, =COUNTIF(SCHEDULE!$C$9:$C29,">="&B$2) returns 0, when I'm expecting it to return 21.
In B2 is the date "6/25/2018", which is actually a reference to
SCHEDULE!C2.
Am I just not understanding the logic correctly? "If the dates in C9:C29 are after or equal to 6/25/2018, then count them."
When I try it as <= it doesn't work either.
I don't think there is an issue with the dates being formatted using TEXT(B2,"MM/DD/YYYY") because other formulas seem to be working fine.
Alternatively, I also tried using SUM(QUERY), but that also got hung up when using the dates.
=sum(query(SCHEDULE!A9:AB,"select count(F) where F='2004' and C >= date '"&TEXT(DATEVALUE(B2),"yyyy-mm-dd")&"'",0))
You can see a test version of the sheet HERE.
I am working from the REF sheet.
You can see what I've tried in Z6, Z7, Z8 and AA6.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. I feel like I'm missing something obvious. I'm not sure if it's the fact that some of the dates from the SCHEDULE page are rendered using TEXT, but I can't figure this out.
Ref!B2 is TEXT(SCHEDULE!$C$2,"MM/DD/YYYY"). You cannot compare text-that-looks-like-a-date to true dates.
The best option is to use =SCHEDULE!$C$2 in REF!B2 and format the cell as mm/dd/yyyy.
The bandaid (dig a hole then fill it up) is to adjust your COUNTIF to,
=COUNTIF(SCHEDULE!$C$9:$C29,">="&DateValue(B$2))
I was Hoping to be fever along before i had to ask for help but.
using Google sheets i am trying to have a range of cells(a row specificity) change there background colour based on the Sum of the 6 cells directly below it in the
I know I am happy using the basic conditional forming and i have a formula witch will return true if the Sum = what i am looking for
=IF(SUM(D6:D11)=6,true,FALSE())
and this works if i copy and past it along but if i try to put it in the Custom formula is box i get told
There was a problem while
Cannot save the rule with invalid formula.
so i take it that i am not using the box right
any help would be greatly appreciated
Conditional formatting is ... conditional. There is not normally any need for IF(). Your formula should work as:
=Sum(D6:D11)=6
but over what range and what cells to format (other then D5) I can't help you, if required, without further details.
Please though do read the [google-spreadsheet] tag wiki.
I'm having some difficulty figuring out how to get Google Spreadsheet to always display date as MM/DD. Currently for the first 9 days of the month it displays MM/D (12/4) rather than MM/DD (12/04). There does not seem to be a option to set this under formatting. Thank you in advance!
Far from ideal, but if you date is in A1 then:
=month(A1)&"/"&if(day(A1)<10,"0"&day(A1),day(A1))
might serve.
So I am trying to highlight any row(s) that show today's date, however the rule I have created for this "A$2=TODAY()" does not like the format of the date in column "A".
The format is being created by a google form and an example of it is "1/24/2018 13:02:31". I have found that I can use DATEVALUE to get around this but I am not sure how to sure if I have the correct syntax for the conditional rule. This is what I have tried but it does not appear to be working: "DATEVALUE(A$2)=TODAY()".
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to correctly solve this problem. I apologize if I am missing something obvious but sometimes I get these stupid mental blocks. Let me know if you need more information. Thanks in advance.
You don't need a custom formula. Just select 'date is' from the dropdown in Conditional Formatting and 'today' from the second dropdown (it is the default). Apply to A2:A.