Conditional formatting in Excel 2010

Hi, I'm wondering if there is a way to tell Excel use conditional formatting on a cell when/if another cell has conditional formatting to it.
Basically I can apply conditional formatting to a cell to say that when a date is entered it turns a certain color but what I'm hoping to do is to turn a row of cells into one colour.

For example if cell A1 has a date entered then called A1:A10 should all turn blue

In cells A2 to A10 are a mix of text, dates and numerical data, is this possible? Is there a way to say if cell A1 turn blue then A2:A10 turn blue too?
Thank you!

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