I don't follow everything you are trying to do, but to answer your literal
question:
You can't format a cell to do that but you can put a formula in a cell to
pick up the Column B value unless Column A is empty. Something like:
=IF(A3="","",B3)
HTH Otto
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>I am trying to run a YTD sales program indexing TY actual weekly sales
> against TY Plan sales. The first worksheet shows current year's actual
> sales
> as they update weekly. The second worksheet has the Sales Plan by week
> for
> the entire year. My third worksheet is a simple YTD indexing form to
> track
> YTD sales against YTD Plan. How do I have a cell formatted to only accept
> the values in "column B" if there is a corresponding value in "column A"?
> Example: Sales TY in weeks 1-3 vs Plan sales Weeks 1-3; next week 1-4 vs
> Plan 1-4, etc.