Highlight Excel Cells Based on the Value of Another Cell





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Second, this rule selects all duplicate values; you can't choose to ignore the first occurrence and highlight just the subsequent values, as this more flexible formula-based rule can. In this video, we'll look at how to use conditional formatting to highlight entire rows using multiple criteria. Any ideas as to how I can fix this would be greatly appreciated - it's so close to working!


Figure M Apply this rule to compare the two side-by-side lists. Here we have an example we looked at previously. This post is really a comment rather than an answer.


Highlight Rows Based on a Cell Value in Excel (Conditional Formatting) - Related: Read this tutorial if you only want to.


In fact, the Conditional Formatting can help you to solve this job, please do with the following steps: 1. First, please create a range name for the specific words list, select the cell text and enter a range name Mylist you can rename as you need into the Name box, and press Enter key, see screenshot: 2. Click Use a formula to determine which cells to format under the Select a Rule Type list box; 2. And then click Format button. Go to the Format Cells dialog box, and choose one color to highlight the cells under the Fill tab, see screenshot: 4. After installing Kutools for Excel, please do as follows: 1. Then set the criteria in the criteria list box. After setting the criteria, click Filter to filter the cells contains the specific values as you need. And then choose one fill color for the seleted cells under Home tab, see screenshot: 4. And all the cells contains the specific values are highlighted, now, you can cancel the filter by clicking Clear button, see screenshot: Demo: Filter cells contains specific values and highlight them at once Amazing! Increase your productivity in 5 minutes. Don't need any special skills, save two hours every day! I made my named range table on another tab. I highlighted the row before I started making my rule. The rule is working - but only colors the first cell in the row, not the entire row. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Can the fact the E7 cell a dynamic drop-down based on a drop-down in D7 be the cause? Hi, I am using this formula to find IP addresses in a column from a list. It misses out some cells which it should highlight, and vice versa highlights some which shouldn't be highlighted. The cells do seem to have some similarity to the IP addresses which I am looking for. Is it something to do with the fact that there are 4 decimal points? Any ideas as to how I can fix this would be greatly appreciated - it's so close to working!

 


Non-answers tend to attract downvotes and are subject to deletion. If I use the format painter to apply the rules established for row A to row B, it won't work as it uses the average calculated in row A. Any idea what I'm doing wrong. For example, August 26 falls before the expected window of 60-3; September 25 falls after the expected window of 60+3. The rule is working - but only colors the first cell in the row, not the entire row. I need to color only those cells depending on the other cells value. First, I'll add an input cell for priority.