I'm looking for help with 2 formulas to add a custom formula in conditional formatting in Google Sheets:
counts the number of cells containing the word apple in k2:k100, but does not include cells that contain longer words that contain apple, for example, applepie or sweetapplepie or redapple
counts the number of cells containing the word apple in k2:k100, but does not include cells that contain longer words that contain apple, for example, applepie or sweetapplepie or redapple, and does not find the word orange in k2:k100
If I'm understanding your question correctly, these two formulas should do what you are looking for:
=if(upper($K2)="APPLE", true, false)
=if((upper($K2)="APPLE")*(upper($L2)="ORANGE"), true, false)
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I built a Google Spreadsheets tracking the price of certain items in each month. The different items are displayed in row 3:30. Different retailers are displays in Column C:M. Each month is displayed in a different sheet. I want to match (for example) Cell C3 to Cell C3 in the month before and color Red if the price has increased, Green if the price has decreased and remain white if the price is the same. I want to do so for each of the cells C3:M30.
I have managed to find a formula to match cell C3 to C3 then cell C4 to C4 etc. untill cell C30. This is the formula I used:
=C3>INDIRECT("OKTOBER 2020!C"&ROW())
This works fine for Column C, but I can't find a way to incorporate Columns D:M in this formula. Is there a way to incorporate the conditional formatting rule for Columns D:M in the same formula? Or should I just add this formula to each row with the corresponding row Letter?
Answer:
You can do this with an ARRAYFORMULA.
Formula:
=ARRAYFORMULA(C3:M30>INDIRECT("OKTOBER 2020!"&SUBSTITUTE(ADDRESS(1,COLUMN(),4),"1","")&ROW()))
Rundown of this formula:
Creates an ADDRESS of a cell which has a row of 1, the current column index, using a relative reference.
Substitute the hard-coded row number 1 to extract out the column letter
Construct an indirect reference to the current cell using the extracted column letter, the current ROW(), and appending it to the string OKTOBER 2020!
Check if this cell is greater than the current cell
Run this whole formula on the range C3:M30. This can be expanded to cover additional cells, if necessary.
This formula checks if the price has gone up, for which the conditional formatting should reflect as such. You can also do this for when the price has decreased or stayed the same by changing the initial comparison operator:
Price decrease:
=ARRAYFORMULA(C3:M30<INDIRECT("OKTOBER 2020!"&SUBSTITUTE(ADDRESS(1,COLUMN(),4),"1","")&ROW()))
No price change:
=ARRAYFORMULA(C3:M30=INDIRECT("OKTOBER 2020!"&SUBSTITUTE(ADDRESS(1,COLUMN(),4),"1","")&ROW()))
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I would like to highlight every row where the numbers in Columns F and G match. This works perfectly, with text (a-z), as answered in this thread:
Google Sheets Conditional Formatting based on two cells
But, I am not sure how to make it work when it's a number. Any advice appreciated!
Apply custom-formula conditional formatting of =$F1=$G1 to the whole range you wish to affect.
Change the 1's to the row number that is the first row in your selected range. E.g. If applying to A5:H, the formula would be =$F5=$G5.
I've got a spreadsheet made on Google Sheets that contains 11 sheets, and each sheet is a set of things that I'm considering buying.
Some sets contain the same individual pieces as something else.
For example item A might be on sheet A and sheet D.
I'd like to make some kind of formula to highlight all duplicates, so that when I was looking through the sheet I could see whether buying item A will help me complete more than just the set that I'm looking at. So I can look at a set and if it's mostly green I know there's more value in buying it as almost all of the contents will also go towards another set.
I know how to do it so that they glow if they match on the same sheet.
$A2=$B2
However I'm not sure how to do it across sheets, or how I'd include if statements. As the colour would have to change if it matches any cells in column A on any sheet. They're also not in the same order on different sheets so while item A might be in A3 on sheet A, it might be in A17 on sheet D.
I'm not sure how possible something like this is, but I'd appreciate any help.
Google Sheets does not allow direct references to cells in other sheets in conditional formatting formulas. But this can be circumvented with indirect:
= A2 = indirect("Sheet2!A2")
formats the current cell (A2) if it's the same as the contend of A2 on Sheet2.
But you want to check whether the content is duplicated anywhere in column A of another sheet. This can be done with match: select the column A2:A of the present sheet, and add conditional formatting with custom formula
=match(A2, indirect("Sheet2!A2:A"), 0) > 0
Here match returns either the position of found element (a positive number) or #N/A, and the formula evaluates to True in the former case only.
Although the formula says "A2", it can be applied at once to any range that has A2 as its upper left corner.
I have a row of values (say 1-10)
At the beginning of the rows I have 2 numbers generated from dates from other cells that represent week numbers. (eg, 3 and 9)
I want my row to highlight all the numbers from 1-10 that are between the values from the week number cells. (eg the cells with numbers 3,4,5,6,7,8 and 9 will automatically turn a colour (say green))
I've tried the conditional format, using the "between" values.
It doesn't work.
If I just type the numbers into the format box, it will work, but the problem is I need it to refer to the value in the cell NOT a number I type in, because there is a likelihood that the dates could change, which will affect the value shown in week number cell, so I need it to work automatically and not require me to go through every single row changing values for the formatting.
Is this even possible on sheets?
Thanks in advance, I am hoping I've just overlooked something simple.
Use a custom function for conditional formatting. For instance, if the columns you describe are in Row 2, this function will evaluate "TRUE" for numbers that are >= A2 and <= B2:
=AND(C2>=$A2,C2<=$B2)
Select the range of cells you wish to create a conditional format for; C2..L2, say. Open the conditional formatting dialog, and choose "Custom formula". Enter the formula above; note that itr refers to the top-left corner of the range you wish to apply the formula to - Sheets will automatically adjust it for the rest of the range, which is why it's important to use absolute references for the first two columns.
I have a column with various text inputs. I'd like to count the number of cells that include either "word1" or "word2". So that if a single cell contains one or more of these it counts as one.
I've managed to make a formula that I think counts all occurrences of "word1" and "word2", but I'm only after the amount of cells containing one of them (or any number of them).
What is the formula for this?
You can use an array formula:
=ARRAYFORMULA(SUMPRODUCT(((ISNUMBER(SEARCH("word1",A1:A5))+ISNUMBER(SEARCH("word2",A1:A5)))>0)*1))
That formula was based on barry houdini's answer a while ago.
Just change the range as required.