Conditional Formatting by date

[lola5375]

I have inherited a spreadsheet with some conditional formatting that has
stopped working. The goal is to highlight data a certain color based on its
age (Today, 1 day old, 2 days old). This has worked until today (31st day of
the month) and I cannot figure out how to change the formula to make it work.
These are the current formulas:
=AND(DAYS360(A3,TODAY())=0,C3<>"",J3="",O3="",P3="")
=AND(DAYS360(A3,TODAY())=1,C3<>"",J3="",O3="",P3="")
=AND(DAYS360(A3,TODAY())=2,C3<>"",J3="",O3="",P3="")

I have tried using cell value = TODAY(), but that hasn't worked...

Thanks in advance

 

[Peo Sjoblom]

Use

=TODAY()-A3=0

and so on

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Regards,


Peo Sjoblom

 

[lola5375]

Do I need to have a cell with the date in it to reference?

I have narrowed down the problem to the DAYS360 function - it only takes
into account 30-day months. Is there a function that rcognizes the 31st day?

 

[Peo Sjoblom]

Dates in Excel are just numbers where on day = 1 so if you have 2 dates
you just subtract to get the number of dates. forget DAYS360 it's for
accountants using
months that are always 30 days


This


TODAY()-A3=0



equals this

DAYS360(A3,TODAY())=0


in your original formula so
all you have to do is to replace that
part with the new



=AND(TODAY()-A3=0,C3<>"",J3="",O3="",P3="")


and so on






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Regards,


Peo Sjoblom

 

[lola5375]

That works to highlight everything that is not today's date.
What I really need is to highlight everything with today's date orange,
everything 1 day ago yellow, and 2 days ago blue...

 

[Peo Sjoblom]

As I said this


=AND(TODAY()-A3=0,C3<>"",J3="",O3="",P3="")



is exactly the same as this


=AND(DAYS360(A3,TODAY())=0,C3<>"",J3="",O3="",P3="")


and the 2 other ones would be


=AND(TODAY()-A3=1,C3<>"",J3="",O3="",P3="")

and


=AND(TODAY()-A3=2,C3<>"",J3="",O3="",P3="")






so if that worked the new will work which it did when I tested


with 10/31/08 in A3 and the rest of the conditions TRUE it will show orange,
with 10/30/08 it will be yellow and with 10/29/08 it will be blue

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Regards,


Peo Sjoblom

 

[lola5375]

Okay, that works, thanks.

As I said this


=AND(TODAY()-A3=0,C3<>"",J3="",O3="",P3="")



is exactly the same as this


=AND(DAYS360(A3,TODAY())=0,C3<>"",J3="",O3="",P3="")


and the 2 other ones would be


=AND(TODAY()-A3=1,C3<>"",J3="",O3="",P3="")

and


=AND(TODAY()-A3=2,C3<>"",J3="",O3="",P3="")






so if that worked the new will work which it did when I tested


with 10/31/08 in A3 and the rest of the conditions TRUE it will show orange,
with 10/30/08 it will be yellow and with 10/29/08 it will be blue

--


Regards,


Peo Sjoblom