I'm looking to validate 2 numbers with conditional formatting.
I need to resolve how to vlookup "x" value within at least 3 different ranges in a different sheet (Validation) but on the same spreadsheet.
I came out with this but it not working as intended.
May you please provide me a workaround or another solution?
VLOOKUP(F5,INDIRECT("{INDIRECT("Validation!B17:Q19"); INDIRECT("Validation!B54:Q56");INDIRECT("Validation!B91:Q93")}"),2,FALSE)
Since you plan to use it as a conditional formatting formula, here's one workaround that you may use.
1st, Create a Helper sheet which will contain the combined range of data that you will use in your vlookup(). You can just hide your Helper sheet if you want.
2nd, Use indirect() using the range in your Helper sheet.
Sample Conditional Formatting Formula:
=D1=Vlookup($A$1,Indirect("Helper!A1:B"),2,false)
Output:
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I have a Google sheet that has a roster of people. I want the sheet to automatically color code people on the roster tab that are also present on a second tab that lists people who have dietary restrictions. I thought that conditional formatting would be the way to go, but I can't get the formula to work. I also can seem to get the conditional formatting formula to be relative based on the row. This is the formula that I have so far. A5 is the first cell that contains the person's ID number. The ID numbers are listed in column A on the "Dietary Restrictions" sheet.
=NOT(ISNA(VLOOKUP(A5,'Ghost Students'!A:H,1,FALSE)))
You want to highlight values from A5:A in one sheet (let's call it Roster) if they are present in column A from another sheet (Dietary restrictions).
Since conditional formatting formulas cannot reference other sheets, you have to use INDIRECT in order to reference that.
You can then use MATCH to check if the value is present.
Your formula could be like this:
=MATCH($A5,INDIRECT("'Dietary restrictions'!A2:A"),0)
Output:
Sheet Roster:
Sheet Dietary restrictions:
How about making vlookup formula grabbing data about dietary conditions from another sheet, and then putting conditional formatting.
You can hide information about dietary conditions if you want and apply conditional formatting based on hidden column:
Just tried. Conditional formatting works with hidden columns too.
How to match format of matching value? *Google Sheets
https://i.stack.imgur.com/xeZmS.png
If I understand your question, I think I have an answer for you. See sample sheet here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QhED3qsoUiX0Km8R86Rg6kHdKdjwQW0uhHZeOd40Sy4/edit?usp=sharing
Note that this currently requires one formula for each of your due date columns, but these are easily dragged across, from D10, for as many columns as you need. There may be a way to combine them as one, but I haven't figured that out yet.
This conditional formatting rule's formula is applied to include D10:D and across as many columns as you need - D10:I18 in this sample sheet.
=arrayformula(index($A$2:$C$18,match(D$9&D10,$A$2:$A$18&$B$2:$B$18,0),3))
which combines the date and the item name, finds them in the initial data, and sees whether the Paid checkbox is ticked. If yes, it formats the text as "strikethrough". For clarity, I've also formatted the cell to gray, but this is easily removed, in the formatting options for that conditional formatting rule.
REFERENCE:
INDEX
ARRAYFORMULA
Conditional Formatting rules
My conditional format formula is:
=indirect(cell(Laddress,index(InitGrid,row(D4)-RorgRC,column(D4)-CorgRC)))
This formula works fine in a spreadsheet cell - i.e. all addressing works.
Any thoughts?
in Google Sheets' Conditional formatting (and Data Validation) all references to another sheet (even named ranges) need to be wrapped into INDIRECT formula.
I'm using conditional formatting in a google sheet.
I can apply this format to a specific column without issue.
But if I want to have the same format on all columns with each column being independent of the other, I don't know what range I should use.
When I set a range that takes applies it to all the columns, the conditional formatting is checking the content of all the cells across all the columns instead of checking the all the cells of each column separately.
I don't know if it's clear, basically, I want to each column formatted separately.
Since I'm using app script to generate the data in my sheet, I used the conditionalFormatRule builder object : https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/spreadsheet/conditional-format-rule-builder
It works like a charm.
But indeed, if I were to manually input data in the sheet, I would have to manually set the conditional formatting on each column... which is completely crazy.
Thank you anyway player0 !
In that case, you need to set up conditional formatting per each column separately (manually). So for columns A-Z you will have in total 26 conditional formatting rules in your spreadsheet per your sheet.
I made a spreadsheet in google sheets in my last company which highlighted all my rows based on my qualifying conditions. I can't remember what conditional formatting I used.
I have tried the =IFAND and =AND functions along with others.
This is what I am trying to do:
If column B says DTC, even if something else is also in cell, and the dates are between two ranges I want it highlighted. Then I will have multiple rules that vary in dates and words. I have attached a new demo sheet to help.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yX_Ohfdz0uRKvOB8hvOpcO2sb5dSaAP6Zw-aR_HzK2E/edit?usp=sharing
The formula I have in there now is =AND($B2="DTC",E$2>=DATE(2017,10,1),E$2<=DATE(2018,10,1))
To find both DTC and DTC-DCL with a wildcard try using if with search like this:
=if(and(search("DTC*",$B2),$E2>=date(2017,10,1),$E2<=date(2018,10,1)),"true","false")