hello
i am trying to set up a budget sheet in excel. is there any way to set excel so that a cell will change colors or do some type of alert when it has hit a maximun number. for example: i have a column for expendatures and a cell at the bottom is formulated to add it all up. i want to know if there is someway to set a max amount of the sum, in that cell and excel alerting me when i exceed that max amount?

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Hi,

Have a look in Excel help for conditional formatting and if you get stuck
post back.

Mike

"gustin" wrote:

> hello,
> i am trying to set up a budget sheet in excel. is there any way to set excel so that a cell will change colors or do some type of alert when it has hit a maximun number. for example: i have a column for expendatures and a cell at the bottom is formulated to add it all up. i want to know if there is someway to set a max amount of the sum, in that cell and excel alerting me when i exceed that max amount?
>
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> frmsrcurl: http://msgroups.net/microsoft.public.excel.misc/2
> .
>

it works, yes. another question arrose upon doing that though: how do I put a value between a minimum number and a maximum number? for example: >150 but <200. I want the alert to show up between those two numbers. this formatting doesn't seem to like doing that. how do I get around it?

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if i understand correctly, this may work for you. select formula in the dropdown
and paste this formula, just change the cell reference.

=AND(A1>150,A1<200)
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Gary Keramidas
Excel 2003


"gustin" <(E-Mail Removed)/> wrote in message
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> it works, yes. another question arrose upon doing that though: how do I put a
> value between a minimum number and a maximum number? for example: >150 but
> <200. I want the alert to show up between those two numbers. this formatting
> doesn't seem to like doing that. how do I get around it?
>
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> frmsrcurl: http://msgroups.net/microsoft.public.excel.misc/Alerts

that did the trick!!! thank you both!!!

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