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horseradish
The built-in rules for conditional formatting (greater than value, less
than value, etc) work on the cell for which the CF is applied WITHOUT
having to specify the cell.
The examples for advanced rules using a formula require the formulas to
respect their arguments. For instance, I'd like to have a CF that
highlights numbers, so I'd rely on "ISNUMBER()" to get a true/false
value that triggers the format. However, ISNUMBER() requires an
argument, and I have been able to enter the cell's address as an
argument to get it to work: apply CF to $A$1 by entering "=ISNUMBER($A$1)".
This is fine for single cells, but applying the rule to a bunch of cells
seems impossible unless there's a "self" or "this cell" wildcard somewhere.
Does anyone know how to do this sort of thing? I'm specifically
interested in doing this in Excel 2007, but it would be nice to know if
it were possible in other versions as well.
than value, etc) work on the cell for which the CF is applied WITHOUT
having to specify the cell.
The examples for advanced rules using a formula require the formulas to
respect their arguments. For instance, I'd like to have a CF that
highlights numbers, so I'd rely on "ISNUMBER()" to get a true/false
value that triggers the format. However, ISNUMBER() requires an
argument, and I have been able to enter the cell's address as an
argument to get it to work: apply CF to $A$1 by entering "=ISNUMBER($A$1)".
This is fine for single cells, but applying the rule to a bunch of cells
seems impossible unless there's a "self" or "this cell" wildcard somewhere.
Does anyone know how to do this sort of thing? I'm specifically
interested in doing this in Excel 2007, but it would be nice to know if
it were possible in other versions as well.