I can make this work:
I have two cells A1 and B1, and if B1 = A1 I would like the cell to turn green.
However, I cannot seem to figure out how to make it generic enough when I copy the formatting for the rest of the column (b2:b100) that it works. Currently it well check the current cell vs A1 all the way down the column.
Im sure this is possible, but google's help documents weren't helpful to me.
Looks like this got it to work
Custom formula is:
=(B1=A1)*(B1<>"")
background color: Green
range ... B:B
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I like to use Google Sheets to keep my list of stories that I'm working on organized
like in this photo here:
Each row is highlighted a certain color depending on the value of the cell in "B" Column. "Published" is green, "WIP" is orange, where for range A2:B2, =B2="Published"
But at the moment I have to create the conditional formatting formula (CF) for each row one by one. I have to make the CF for Row 2, then copy the CF to Row 3 and edit the formula to replace every B2 with a B3 so it works independently on the next row.
This seems far too tedious to do practically so I was wondering if there was a formula that would allow each row to be formatted individually with one formula? Something where the formula knows to look at B2 in Row 2 to apply the formatting, B3 in Row 3, and so on.
The current formula I'm using is [=B3="Published"] to change the formatting style to a green highlight. But if I do this on all of my cells, it will change all of rows based on the value of B2. Even though in B3 it might be "WIP" instead, which defeats the purpose of highlight. I was hoping it would function like [if: =BX="Published"/ then: apply conditional formatting to Row X]
I'm really sorry about the poor phrasing of this question, I have basically zero knowledge on Google Sheets and don't know how to phrase the question for Google or any other search engine
set your range to A2:F and use this set of formulae:
orange
=$B2="WIP"
blue
=$B2="Outline"
green
=$B2="Published"
So, I have a formula graciously shared by someone here that works amazing in highlighting cells in a column that contains letters from K to Z, excluding RR. Here it is below...
=REGEXMATCH(E5:E,"[K-Z]")*(REGEXMATCH(E5:E,"RR")=FALSE)
But, I'm trying to accomplish the same thing with an IF formula (not conditional formatting), where if a cell in column E contains a letter from K-Z, it will display the green checkbox, and if not, display the red down arrow. I'm not sure exactly how to exclude RR again in the equation. Here's the formula I'm trying to get to work...
={"OL";ARRAYFORMULA(IF(E5:E="",,if(REGEXMATCH(E5:E,"K|L|M|N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z"),"✅","🔻")))}
The formula works except it includes cells containing RR, I guess because R is in there? But I want to exclude cells containing RR.
Here's a Google Sheet that contains the formula I'm currently using.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
I left a new sheet ("Erik Help") with a formula in B1 that somewhat follows the form of your original formula there, since that seems to be something you understand. All I did was add another outer IF to rule out instances of "RR" up front:
={"OL";ARRAYFORMULA(IF(A2:A="",,IF(A2:A="RR","🔻",IF(REGEXMATCH(A2:A,"[K-Z]"),"✅","🔻"))))}
use:
={"OL"; INDEX(IF(
REGEXMATCH(E5:E,"[K-Z]")*(REGEXMATCH(E5:E,"RR")=FALSE),
"✅", "🔻"))}
I have a spreadsheet with a custom formula that changes the colour of different cells based on the value in the dates column. I also frequently have to change the formula based on different times of the month.
I would like the formula to point to a cell eg A1 so that whenever I change the contents of A1, the custom formula itself will change.
Currently the custom conditional formatting formula is =E2>=TODAY() -21
I alternate between this and =AND(E2>DATE(2019,3,23),E2<DATE(2019,4,20))
I've tried to use =INDIRECT(A1) as the formula, with A1 cell content =E2>=TODAY() -21 but this doesn't work. I would really appreciate any tips on how to get this working.
custom formula:
=IF((($A$1="=E2>=TODAY()-21")*(E2>=TODAY()-21))+
(($A$1="=AND(E2>DATE(2019,3,23),E2<DATE(2019,4,20))")*((E2>DATE(2019,3,23))*(E2<DATE(2019,4,20)))),1)
demo spreadsheet
I'm trying to make every cell in range A2:G21 green if its value is lower than A24. I thought It would be quite easy but I just can't figure it out.
Thanks in advance!
Select from A2 to G21 and apply a Custom formula is of
=A2<$A$24
I am looking for some help on how to make my data easily changeable with colours depending on what is in a specific cell.
Here is a example sheet
Example Link
So basically I want to make it so when I put a Y in column C that it then turns A2, B2 and C2 to green, and so on for N, C and NN.
But it has to be specific too those two cells and not the whole row
This is possible. I cannot open your sheet, so unable to see what you exactly mean.
But I think you mean something like in my example.
See printscreen below. Edit:
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Also added the link to my example spreadsheet here.