Hi I have an excel sheet, that has a column called as Company name
in another sheet there is there are couple of look ups.. i need to look up those and highlight them in different colors based on the look up list.
for example, in the above scenario, i need Company A Highligted in oone color and company C in another.
If highlighting is challgeng, i dont mind even having a seperate coloumn next to it that says, if it is a partner or competitor.
i tried the below formula under conditional formatting .. but doesnt work for different colours... it colors everything the same
=NOT(ISNA(VLOOKUP(B1,'Lookup List'!$A$2:$D$200,1,FALSE)))
Please try selecting Company Name column and HOME > Styles - Conditional Formatting, New Rule..., Use a formula to determine which cells to format and Format values where this formula is true::
=COUNTIF('Lookup List'!$A:$A,B1)
Format..., select colour Fill (highlight) of your choice, OK, OK.
Then repeat with:
=COUNTIF('Lookup List'!$B:$B,B1)
with a different fill.
If every entry is one colour or the other then one CF rule is sufficient, with the other colour applied as standard fill.
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Would really appreciate a solution to the below:
I am looking to have 8 sheets.
Main sheet that has all jobs, these are all currently sorted into the following colours :
Red - live
Green - invoiced/complete
Blue - quoted
Black - enquiry
Grey - dead/ lost
Purple - work in progress
Yellow - Retention
what i would like to do is keep the main sheet and have a sheet for each of the above. when the text becomes red for example i would like it to be transfered to the live sheet and vica versa for the rest. this should be in a macro
can anyone help?
Many thanks,
You say "when the text becomes red " so possibly this is a conditional format?
In any case, what you need to do is to attach code to the main sheet's Calculate event . This code should do the following
look at the activecell's color element that you mean (font, background, conditional formating, etc)
Based on that color, copy the entire row to the appropriate sheet
(Can you assume the sheets already exist?)
You will probably need a Select Case Statement. I would declare a worksheet variable and then SET it to the appropriate sheet in the select
and then
Activecell.entirerow.copy ws.cells(ws.rows.count,1).end(xlup).offset(1,0)
will copy the row to the desired sheet at the bottom of any existing rows.
Have a try and come back with code if you get stuck
EDIT: Sorry I missed the "click a button" part. You can ignore the bit about the sheets calculate event - just attach your code to the button. The only thing to worry about then is that you will need to run through all the used rows of the sheet, since there might be more than one coloured row when you click on the button.
I have found out how to get the last occurrence of the selected name from a list in excel 2016. The problem is that I want to "highlight" or change the color fill of the cell that is in the criteria when I choose its name in the list.
This is my code:
=PROC(2;1/(C1:C199=P61);A1:A199)
In my spreadsheet the name is in the 'C' column and the data is in the A column.
What I need is only to know how to change the color like in the image below. The drop list name and data code I know how to do.
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Thanks.
You can achieve that by applying a Conditional Formatting to the desired range.
Make sure to select Range("A2:B15"), and then go to:
Home > Conditional Formatting > New rule > Use a Formula to determine which cells to format
Write this formula, and choose a format:
=COUNTIFS($A2;$D$3;$B2;$E$3)>0
Click OK, and then Apply
I need to conditional format background color of Columns O:Y based on the color code AF:AK, is there a conditional format formula, or VBA code I can use.
Please ignore current format on columns O:X
You can't set the background colour to match the numbers directly in those cells with conditional formatting, though it is possible using VBA.
However, it is easier to check the value of the cells using the standard Conditional formatting rules and set the colours manually. This means you can have any colour matched to any number. Of course, you can choose the correct colour to fill if this is important to the solution.
I have set this up on a sheet below. I put the conditional formatting formula in the first cell (removing the $ symbol the system puts in for you) and copy across and down.
How can I change the #N/A to the blank cell if nothing in that cell?
Eg. =VLOOKUP(B19:B36;$TABLE.A1:C46;2;0)
I think I might need something like an ISERROR check but I don't 100% know what I'm doing.
If we're talking about Excel 2010 and later you can use IFERROR:
=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(B19:B36;$TABLE.A1:C46;2;0);"")
You can also put text into the final string result
The question was misleading about the spreadsheet software as 2 different spreadsheets were originally stated in tags. However, it can be seen that the question is about OpenOffice Calc:
- Absolute sheet referencing ($ sign before the sheet name) is not possible in Excel.
- We also see a dot between the sheet name and the range, which is again not possible in Excel.
As in OpenOffice Calc you don't have IFERROR function, the only way is to repeat your main function twice in the following form (you can use both, ISNA and ISERROR, but I suggest ISNA as it's more specific and fits your case):
=IF(ISNA(YourFormula);"";YourFormula)
In your case something like:
=IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP(B19;$TABLE.A1:C46;2;0));"";VLOOKUP(B19;$TABLE.A1:C46;2;0))
You may want to make absolute reference to the range where you look for matching values, as I see you want to copy the formula down.
=IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP(B19;$TABLE.$A$1:$C$46;2;0));"";VLOOKUP(B19;$TABLE.$A$1:$C$46;2;0))
Since the cells will contain a formula this is about appearances, so Conditional formatting might suit, say if the cell background is white, for style choose Font > Font Effects > Font color white.
For this, select the relevant range - I have assumed D19:D36 - and Format > Conditional Formatting... and for Condition 1 choose Cell value is and equal to and:
ISNA(D19)
I am trying to create a formula in Microsoft Excel 2010 to accomplish the following algorithm:
If A1=10, then A2 has a background color of red.
I have basic knowledge of if/then statements in Excel, so I have this so far:
=IF(A1=10, x)
...where x would be the formula for changing the background color of the cell. However, after conducting some internet research on the subject, the consensus seems to be that I should instead use conditional formatting to accomplish this task. I have never used conditional formatting and am having trouble understanding how to utilize it so that a condition on one cell would affect another cell.
This is the conditional formatting screen that I am faced with:
So I guess I have two questions:
Is using conditional formatting the best way to accomplish this?
If so, how can I utilize it to assign a background color to a cell, given the truth of a condition on a different cell?
You can do it using conditional formatting, so you're on the right track. One thing I'm assuming here is that you want to format the cell to the right of the cell with the value - is that correct? If so, you actually don't need to use an if formula (though your logic is correct). In that dialog box, make the formula:
=A1=10
And then when you click OK, change the Applies to range by clicking on the little chart icon next to it and clicking cell B1. Then do apply, etc., close out the box and try typing 10 in A1. When you need to expand the range, you can just change that Applies to range to encompass everything you want affected. In the example below, cells B1:B26 will all change if 10 is entered in the cell directly to the left (column A).