BACKGROUND: I am editing a google forms response sheet. I would like new rows to be red, until they are assigned a status. I have already used the data validation tool to create a list of statuses, and assign color to the entire row using conditional formatting.
I decided the easiest way to do this is to use the timestamp column (L).
something like: IF L=NOTBLANK then COLOR=RED
I've seen another post in which the user asked how to negate the "isblank" function in google sheets. The solution to his question was
=not(isblank(A1))
I tried to use this + my own conditional formatting to color an entire row red, if the L cell in that row was not blank.
My formula looks like this
=$A2=not(isblank(l2))
HOWEVER, this turns everything but the first row red.
What would be the correct syntax? Here's a pic of my current results
I would like new rows to be red, until they are assigned a status.
Please use the following
=isblank($L2)
I tried to use ... to color an entire row red, if the L cell in that row was not blank.
Please use the following
=not(isblank($L2))
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I'm trying to make conditional formatting that changes the color of a cell (Red, Blue, Green) based on a range of names on a different sheet. What I have is three lists of names that are either Red, Blue or Green. When I make a list with these names on a separate sheet I want the formatting to change their color to the ones assigned.
The formatting I want to make is something along the lines of "IF the value (name) in this cell is the same as the value (name) in any of cell in a range on another sheet it should change the color automatically.
Here is a link to a sheet where I tried to set it up they way I wanted it to look but I still can't get the formatting to work
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1i1DM8X6gyRNMUmYBAtuupeuCUA1iB4LhMDwkD7PHi8w/edit?usp=share_link
I was trying the conditional formatting tool with formulas but I kept getting errors with the formulasenter image description here The picture is in Swedish because google sheets would keep defaulting back to it regardless how much I tried.
One thing is that Conditional Formatting doesn't allow you to directly refer to another sheet. You can do work it around via INDIRECT.
And to compare to several texts, you should not choose the option text contains, but you can find useful REGEXMATCH and TEXTJOIN:
=REGEXMATCH(A2;TEXTJOIN("|";1;INDIRECT("'Name sheet'!A2:A11")))
=REGEXMATCH(A2;TEXTJOIN("|";1;INDIRECT("'Name sheet'!B2:B11")))
=REGEXMATCH(A2;TEXTJOIN("|";1;INDIRECT("'Name sheet'!C2:C11")))
I have a timetable style sheet that has values filled in rows on particular dates. I would like to be able to automatically have the row background colour change up to the last filled value, so you can easily scan down the sheet visually to see longest time since etc.
Image below to illustrate what I mean: the dark backgrounds I have created manually, this is what I would like to auto fill using conditional formatting:
Something like this would do:
=AND(A1 = "", COUNTA(B1:1) > 0)
1st condition to color only empty cells, 2nd to color if there's something further.
Try the following under Custom formula is
=COLUMN(A1)<INDEX(MAX(COLUMN(A1:1)*(--(A1:1<>""))))
I have a spreadsheet that is in Google Sheets which has a column that I want to format conditionally. I want to format it, such that groups of rows which all hold the same value are dark grey, while they next group of rows of all the same value are light grey. For example, I want the sheet to look something like this:
The numbers will not neccesarily be grouped in order, so I can't just use =mod(a1,2)=1 for the conditional format. I also would like it to update so that no matter how the other columns are filtered, this column remains such that every time the value in the next row is different, it and its duplicates are all a new color, mainly for visualization, to see which data is grouped together.
If I'm to use the formulae =isodd(countunique(a$2:a2)) and =isodd(countunique(a$2:a2)) and then apply some filter, then I get the following, which doesn't alternate the colors based on what is shown.
Any help would be great. Thanks.
Try
=isodd(countunique(a$1:a1))
for the light grey and
=iseven(countunique(a$1:a1))
for the dark grey
EDIT
The same question was asked in Excel recently and I realised it would be better just to count the changes of value like this:
=ISEVEN(SUMPRODUCT(--(A$1:A1<>A$2:A2)))
This does highlight correctly if a duplicate appears in more than one continuous sequence:
whereas the original formula would have highlighted incorrectly:
It doesn't solve the filtering question though.
I have a sheet where I would like to turn a row a color based on the value of two cells. I already have conditional formatting based on one cell of the cells I want to use for the two cell formatting.
I am using =AND($J:$J="Cancel",$L:$L="Yes") for the two cell formatting but it doesnt seem to work. Not sure if the first one =$J:$J="Cancel" is negating the formatting of the other or if if my formula is just bad.
Any advice would be appreciated.
if the trick is that you want the whole row to be colored that way, then all you need to modify is the "range" to apply it too, so you enter something like the start column and then just give it a row number as the second half of the range, without the column argument: A1:10001
That exact formula you listed =AND($J:$J="Cancel",$L:$L="Yes") worked for me when using the "custom formula" option:
I'm trying to have a cell on Sheet A check if it's either > or < the value in a cell on Sheet B, then change its color accordingly. Under the custom formula I use: =A1>("SheetB!A1"), but it doesn't seem to work. I use the color Green for the > and the color Red for the <. Every time the rules are saved it will always display A1 on Sheet A in red.
Is the function wrong? Or is it not possible to have a Conditional Format even search across sheets?
For some reason (I confess I don't really know why) a custom formula in conditional formatting does not directly support cross-sheet references.
But cross-sheet references are supported INDIRECT-ly:
=A1>INDIRECT("SheetB!A1")
or if you want to compare A1:B10 on SheetA with A1:B10 on SheetB, then use:
=A1>INDIRECT("SheetB!A1:B10")
=A1>INDIRECT("SheetB!"&CELL("address",A1))
applied to range A1:B10.
You can do this by referencing the cell and row number in the current sheet, so as you drag-copy that conditional formatting to other rows it will reference the correct cells.
In the below equation I am coloring cells based on the exact same cell in some other sheet named "otherSheetName" in this example. If for example you want to color cell B2 in Sheet2 if the cell B2 in otherSheetName contains the text "I Like Dogs" you would go to cell Sheet2!B2 , click condition formatting, choose equation from the drop down and paste the below equation.
=IF(INDIRECT("otherSheetName!"&ADDRESS(ROW();COLUMN()))="I Like Dogs";1;0)
Comparing strings instead of numbers for a conditional formatting rule, you can use:
=EXACT(A1,(INDIRECT("Sheet2!A1")))
Case sensitive.
There is one trick/bug: if you have conditional formatting in Sheet1 that explicitly references itself (e.g., the formula is Sheet1!$C$2), you can copy the conditional formatting to Sheet2 with Paste special > conditional formatting and it will "work"... as long as you don't touch anything:
if you try to edit the conditional formatting in Sheet2, then you'll get an "Invalid formula" error.
if columns/rows change in Sheet1 such that they affect the conditional formatting (e.g., row/column inserts), this is not reflected in Sheet2 (keep in mind that the indirect trick mentioned by #AdamL will also not reflect column/row updates either, so it's a wash in this respect).
I was able to compare two sheet and highlight the differences on the second sheet using conditional formatting :
=A1<>(INDIRECT("Sheet1!"&Address(Row(),Column(),)))