Conditional formatting with multiple rules and blank text cells
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PaiviM Posts 8 Registration date Friday December 1, 2017 Status Member Last seen December 30, 2017 - Dec 6, 2017 at 10:00 AM
PaiviM Posts 8 Registration date Friday December 1, 2017 Status Member Last seen December 30, 2017 - Dec 6, 2017 at 10:00 AM
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So, are you asking about conditional formatting, or how to nest different logic statements?
With your example, it looks like you can do the conditional formatting.
You can have a list of lets say 10+ different logic tests to return a true with Conditional formatting. Just stack the logic from least to most significant. In other words, every single logic test can make a formatting change to the cell! It is the last "True" logic test that wins!
It's kind of fun to do the impossible! -Walter Elias Disney
With your example, it looks like you can do the conditional formatting.
You can have a list of lets say 10+ different logic tests to return a true with Conditional formatting. Just stack the logic from least to most significant. In other words, every single logic test can make a formatting change to the cell! It is the last "True" logic test that wins!
It's kind of fun to do the impossible! -Walter Elias Disney
Dec 4, 2017 at 06:41 AM
Thanks for your reply! This is what I've got as conditional formatting rules at the moment, in this order.
=$H£2=TODAY() applies to =$H$2 Formats as orange
=$H$2<TODAY90 applies to =$H$2 Formats as Red
=$G$2="" applies to =$H$2 formats as clear
So what I'm trying to achieve is that cell H2 goes to orange or red if the date on that cell is today or earlier, consecutively, but if a comment has been left on cell G2 then it will cancel the other rules and leave cell H2 clear. I'm not sure if I need to add another rule, and whether they are in right order, and if I need to click one of them as "stop if true".
Much appreciate your time on this!
Kind regards,
Paivi
Dec 4, 2017 at 05:10 PM
Have you attempted to make any changes based on the input I have given? Are you still stuck?
Dec 5, 2017 at 03:34 AM
Yes I organised the rules as per my above list, but no success. The colours change based on the formatting rules, but I can get the format to go clear in cell H2 once something has been input in cell G2. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong or possibly not doing.
Many thanks!
Paivi
Dec 5, 2017 at 04:49 PM
G2 <> ""
Give that a try. Place that one last.
Dec 6, 2017 at 10:00 AM
it works!! Thank you so much! You can't imagine how happy that's made me :)
Paivi