![]() All cells and values in between are assigned colors that are a blend of those 2 colors.Another color is assigned to the cell with the highest value.One color is assigned to the cell with the lowest value.Using “Color Scales” is basically a way to assign colors to all the value-filled cells of your choice. The difference between “Color Scales” and “Data Bars” is just the way it’s presented. You just need to click in ‘Applies to’ at the rule you want to change in the ‘Conditional Formatting Rules Manager’ box.Īlthough a very similar variant to “Data Bars”, “Color Scales” are too a very effective tool for giving the reader an immediate overview of the data in Excel. To change the range of cells that the conditional formatting rules applies to, you don’t need to go to the ‘Edit Formatting Rule’ box above. If you don’t want your cells to turn green when it includes the text “L compatible” (or something else), you can have it turn yellow instead.Īs you see there’re enough options, but wait – there’s more!Īll of the above is very nice, but if you accidentally selected the wrong area when you made the conditional formatting rule – then it doesn’t help to change the ‘Rule Type’ or whether the cells should be red or blue.Īnd if you spent 5 minutes entering a unique formula to “trigger” the formatting, then it sucks to delete it and do it all over. From this little (familiar) box you can change the formatting that you applied in the first place.If you keep the ‘Specific text’ you can decide here whether the cell should contain, not contain, begin with or end with the text that you enter in the field to the right.This means that the formatting applies when a cell is empty or, for example, holds a value greater than, or less than, 100. Here you edit your rule so it no longer “triggers” on a cell containing specific text, by choosing “Blanks” or “Cell Value”. If you keep the ‘Rule Type’ you can change the “ trigger” of the formatting.You can also make the rule more advanced by basing it on a formula. ![]() If you don’t want the conditional formatting to apply when “something” happens in a cell, you can change it to apply on all cells and filling them with color based on their value compared to the average of the data. The result includes text that has been typed in and formulas that are returning text.Below we’ll go through the different options shown in above screenshot. It is simply a case of again highlighting cells top-left to bottom-right cells B7:C22.Įdit the conditional formatting rule and change the formula to: If we go back to the table in our earlier example. This is another condition the CELL function with “type” can resolve. ![]() =CELL( “type”, $F$23)=”b” Conditionally Formatting if Cell Contains Text The formula in the conditional format would be: Then follow the steps to create a conditional format condition. It may be beneficial to use a cell at the top of a form to indicate if a cell that requires user input has been completed.įor example we may want to apply the conditional formatting to cell P1 to indicate that cell F23 is blank. Conditionally Formatting if Another Cell is Blank The change of ‘=’ to ‘’ is all that is needed. This one is easy based on the ‘conditionally formatting if cell is BLANK’ example above.Īll we need to do is replace our previous CELL function with: Lets move on to look at conditionally formatting for other attributes: Conditionally Formatting if Cell is Not Blank The function will return either “b” for blank, “l” for label (text) or “v” for everything else. This identifies the type of contents in the reference cell. CONDITIONAL FORMATTING EXCEL 2016 CELL COLOR SERIESINFO_TYPE is a series of attributes provided by Excel®. You can select INFO_TYPE from a list of available options when you start typing the formula. The CELL function has two arguments: INFO_TYPE and REFERENCE. However it is worth understanding the CELL function as this can be useful for applying conditional formatting to highlight cells with other attributes. TRUE is only returned if there is no text, formula or constant in the cell. ![]() The ISBLANK function is a simple test that exists in Excel® to return TRUE or FALSE. In fact there are 2 alternatives we could use. If you don’t want to highlight cells like this then we need an alternative function. There could potentially be a formula in cell B9 above that is returning “”. The COUNTIF function will include all cells that appear to be blank. If you clear out some of the other cells in colulmn B you will see they also turn yellow as expected.
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