Formatting Cells Dependent On Other Cells Relation To That Cell.
Jan 4, 2010
i have just read the thread started by scabertrain regarding "if" conditonal formating, but mines slightly different and i cant make head nor tale of the fomula shown.
So... Monthly budgeting... using a projected outgoing (A1) and an actual outgoing (A2) i want the colour "A2" to change depending on whether i have spent over the budgeted amount, green being underspent, orange for on target and red for over spending....
Example:
I predicted (A1) that i was going to spend £50 on a night out, but my actual spending (A2) was £100, i would like A2 to turn to red.
I'm a average excel user, i know my way around it and kow common and basic formulee, VB isnt a strong point, but i am willing to attemp anything for this, let me explain
Lets say in colum A I have a list of items, in colum B i have a check box, currently the check box is red, if i tpye a x it turns green due to conditional formating. That works fine...onto the problem...
Lets say in colum A i have my items but they are repeated...eg A1, A145, A166, A122 are all the same item, what i want is regardless of where i place the x each check box under coloum B either gets a X and turns green, or just turns green, i dont mind...
I dont think conditional formatting can cut this, though i may be wrong. Ive tried to use the IF function under condtional formatting but ran into problems...
Sheet 2 is a copy of sheet 1 taken on a particular date.
Sheet 3 is information extracted from Sheet 1.
On sheet 3 what I need to do is change the font colour of a cell to red if the information it contains in relation to Sheet 2 is different i.e Sheet 1 cell and Sheet 2 cell are different
For example
Sheet 1 cell value = Deb Sheet 3 cell value = Deb Copy of sheet 1 taken to create sheet 2 on a certain date Sheet 1 cell value changes to = Bed Need Sheet 3 cell to change to = Bed as it is different from sheet 2
I did try conditional formatting but it will not work with info. from another worksheet that I can see. Maybe someone out there has another solution.
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