I'm trying to use conditional formatting to highlight the maximum value over multiple ranges. That is, find the one highest value in said ranges and highlight all instances of it. I have been able to use conditional formatting to highlight the highest number of one column, but not over multiple.
The ranges in question are: G3:G13,J3:J13,M3:M13,P3:P13,S3:S13,V3:V13
Screenshot of the spreadsheet
The versions I have tried either highlight every value in the first row, multiple values but not the highest one, or nothing at all.
An alternative is to use a MAX function and place that value in another cell (the little 4 in the bottom right corner) and use conditional formatting based on that value. However, it's not a particularly elegant solution nor have I been able to make that work properly.
I am using New Google Sheets and am familiar with custom formatting and custom formulas for doing so.
You need to use Conditional Formatting Custom Formula.
Set Apply to Range
G3:G13,J3:J13,M3:M13,P3:P13,S3:S13,V3:V13
Enter in Custom Formula is
=G3=(max($G$3:$G$13,$J$3:$J$13,$M$3:$M$13,$P$3:$P$13,$S$3:$S$13,$V$3:$V$13))
Pick your formatting style.
You may have to scroll down the Format cells if menu to find Custom Formula.
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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 list of times in a table that I want to apply some conditional formatting to. I just want them to turn different colours based on whether they're later or earlier than the time in the previous cell. I'm having trouble figuring out the appropriate rule though.
More specifically I'm having trouble thinking of a formula for the rule that I can apply to the whole range of times given in the table. What I need is basically the condition =[current cell]>[current cell-1] and vice versa but don't know how to write this in a formula that I can apply as a rule for the whole range.
How to accomplish this?
Custom Formula:
=B1<A1
Apply to:
B1:Z1
or
B:Z
Color:Green
Add another conditional formula for Red.
See explanation here
I have a range which spans the columns A to AV and I need to highlight all cells in that range that contain text from a list of elements placed at AY20:AY27.
I know how to highlight matches between two lists. However, I cannot find a working solution applicable for a whole range.
I have also tried to use the "Contains text" option which works if I take each element of the list individually to create a conditional formatting rule. The problem with that method is that if one of the elements of the list is empty then all the range will be highlighted. And the list is manually typed and won't always fill AY20:AY27.
Is there any way to make this conditional formatting work in any way?
Thanks!
Please try clearing formatting from and selecting ColumnsA:AV and Format, Conditional formatting..., Format cells if... Custom formula is and:
=countif($AY$20:$AY$27,A1)
Then select formatting of choice and Done.
I am using Google Sheets and trying to write a custom formatting rule that seems like it should be simple. I am trying to figure out how to conditionally format all the cells in a column INCLUDING AND ABOVE (but not below) the cell that meets my condition.
I've found a lot of things that will format the entire column, but that's not what I'm looking for.
The image below is a basic example that I manually colored in to do what I want.
It's for my budget spreadsheet, where each row is an entry from a particular date. I have an "Agreement" column that is empty except when I enter the date that I reconciled the budget. I want it to color that cell and all the empty cells above it green, signifying at a glance: "everything up to this point is ok/has been checked over". Then as time goes by, and I enter another date several rows below, I want it to extend the colored shading up to there.
I've been searching, but it is hard to articulate this; if I say "until this cell" I get results for "shade cell until text is entered"; any mention of "above" and "below" generally relates to the values in the cells; I've found some things about Indirect but just for a single cell above, not for all cells above the current cell.
Wondering if this is even possible...
Google Sheets example
If you create a conditional formatting rule for column A using a Custom Formula you can use this formula:
=COUNTIF(ROW(),"<="&LARGE(ArrayFormula(IF(ISBLANK(A1:A100),"TRUE",ROW(A1:A100))),1))
The larger the ranges you use, the slower it will be however.
I have a sheet where I would like to turn a row a color based on the value of two cells. I already have conditional formatting based on one cell of the cells I want to use for the two cell formatting.
I am using =AND($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: