I'm using Google Spreadsheets to create a calendar that my Admin Team can access and put their names down for certain jobs that need to be done. To make it easier to see, I'm trying to conditionally format the cells so that they change colour when an event is added to that cell. And I have three different cells for each date to format, as I had to break them into the date, the event, and the space where Admins put their names down.
The thing is, I have to do this with each individual cell, which is tiresome at the least; I spent an hour last night searching for the formula to do what I wanted, and only managed to do two cells. It takes too long to do this, so I was wondering if there's a way to do this quicker, since dragging doesn't sequence the cells. They'll all change when the original cell has text.
The formulae I'm using are =LEN(A6)>0 and =IF(A6>0,true,false)
Is there a way I can get the cells to sequence, or will I have to do it all manually?
Please try selecting ColumnA, Format > Conditional formatting..., Custom formula is:
=OR(A1<>"",A2<>"",A3<>"")
Colour yellow and Range: A2:A
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How do I create a conditional formatting rule in Google Sheets that changes the colour of a cell based on the text in another cell?
I want to create a rule whereby if I type "tested" in ANY cell, the two following cells in the row change colour automatically to show the testing window.
The sheet is very large so I need to also know how to make this rule apply to all cells, without all formatting relating to the text in just one cell - it always needs to be the cell with the text relating to the following two cells in the row.
Thanks in advance!
I've tried to use the basic conditional formatting, and tried googling, but all answers are based on a number value and don't apply when I try to use the same custom formula.
try:
=A1="tested"
and 2 rules. one for B1:Z and 2nd for C1:Z
To be more specific, I want the Conditional Formatting to check the content of the cell that is currently being formatted and be dynamic as I copy-paste the Conditional Formatting into another cell, without having to manually fiddle with the formula again.
So what I'm doing is this (using an example):
I have a list of foods categorized by type (Fruits, vegetables, etc...) and every week the list changes, so its not possible to add "hard values" to formulas, it has to be a cell reference under the category.
Which means that under the category "fruits" for example, in week 1 i can have: banana, apple and peach but totally different fruits another week.
Anyways, I also want to create a calendar with the days in the week, where I put 4 drop-down menus which correspond to the 4 types of food. The drop down menus update as I update the initial list of avaiable foods.
Now down to the real issue.
I want that the cell used for the drop down menu to take an specific color when the content of that cell contains a food inside a given category.
For example, I select Apple, it checks for the apple and applies the apple color to the cell.
I acheived this with this
=COUNTIF(A4:A6, INDIRECT("RC","FALSE"))
I found someone online using the INDIRECT("RC","FALSE") value to "reference" the current cell but its not working for me...
A4:A6 is the range of fruits and it will give the red color to the apple because i defined it in Conditionnal formatting.
Now when I copy the conditional formatting is not working for the other apples and I want to make it work for others, just by checking if the current cell contains a value in a range of cells, without manually changing the current cell for every cell.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15trOcNzucTJDDwuseQTsvjhioIGN9W4NEjhztmMZ1so/edit#gid=0
This is my google spreadsheet, please help ! I'm not sure if I can understand better. This is for a much bigger project and really need the help.
Current cell for conditional formatting is left top most cell in Apply to range range.
In your case it is D11. So you should use following formula:
=COUNTIF($A$4:$A$6, D11)
Need some help. I'm currently making a Google Sheets, and I need some conditional formating. I need a row to be formatted with the condition on one of her cells.
For example, I need to formate A2:I2 with the formula =$H$2="No".
This was the easy part. I can do that.
The part that I fail is :
I have like 30 or 40 rows to formate like that, with the condition on the cell of the row. (H15 for A15:I15, H21 for A21:I21...). I tried to select the first row, copy it, and special past the formatting to another row, but Google makes some weird shit. It creates a new rule, but keep the previous cells range and add the currently selected. And the formula stays on the $H$2. I know it's because I put some $ in the name of the cell, but if I don't, it will not formating the entire row. Juste the first cell.
My question is :
How can I properly copy/paste the conditional formatting of the first row to the others one, with the condition correctly on the cell of each row, and keeping the formatting on the entire row?
The meaning of the $ sign is the following:
$H$2: it will lock that cell only,
H$2: it will lock that column,
$H2: it will lock that row (I think this is the one you are looking for),
So you can set the range to be: A2:I
And the formula to be: =$H2="No"
I am trying to highlight cells which have been manually entered by using the formulatext() function. However, at the moment this is highlighting all the cells that have a different outcome (from if statements) to the first cell. Can this be changed?
(If curious my exact formula at the moment is =formulatext(E4)<>if(B4= "","",if(left(CN4,1)<>"-",if(or(D4="A",D4="B"),if(AF4<>"","DONE",CN4),if(AF4<>"","DONE",CN4)),if(or(D4="A",D4="B"),if(AF4<>"","DONE","over 48h"),if(AF4<>"","DONE","over 36h")))), the formula inside is working so no need to change it)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kOJf07eoe_8tYR9a2h1iv2OIBt77xprHiGER3InGg-g/edit?usp=sharing
I hope that link works.
I'm trying to display the current date in every cell in a single column in a google spreadsheet. =today() displays the current date in any cell, but I can't figure out how to make it work in an entire column.
I tried =arrayformula(TODAY()), but it only works in the cell it's in.
Any ideas?
You need some way of introducing a condition on each row, e.g.
=ArrayFormula(IF(ROW(A:A),TODAY()))
You have to make an array operation - any, to make Arrayfromula works, so eg:
=ArrayFormula(IF(row(A1:A),today(),))
will work