formatting cells based on comparison

[sparks]

I have 5 date colums.
I was wanting to change the background of cells 2-5 based on if they
are equal to cell 1 value

date1 date2 date3 date4 date5

12/01/05 12/16/05 12/01/05

here since date3 = date1 date3 would have a yellow background.

how do you do Conditional Formatting on something like this?


thank you for any pointers for a noob


Jerry

 

[Flintstone]

Select "Cell value is", "Equal to" and type in the last box =$A$1

Matt