Subtotals & Conditional Formatting Part 2

[Guest]

I'm trying to make bold the subtotals in my spreadsheet I created via
Data>Subtotal... using a formula in Conditional Formatting.
Below is a copy of a previous post of mine and I don't understand the answer
given to me.
How could =AND(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("total",A2)),ISERROR(SEARCH("grand",A2)))
bold the subtotals in my spreadsheet that I created via Data>Subtotal...?
How would the SEARCH and ISNUMBER functions help bold my subtotals in my
spreadsheet?
Can someone help?


P.S. I don't need to bold Grand Totals


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Do you want the "Grand Total" formatted also or *just* the subtotals?

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/9642/formatrx2.jpg

For just the subtotals:

Conditional Formatting
Formula Is:

=AND(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("total",A2)),ISERROR(SEARCH("grand",A2)))

To include the Grand Total:

=ISNUMBER(SEARCH("total",A2))

Biff

 

[Bob Phillips]

The Search looks in the cell for that text, and if found returns its
position, if not it errors. So doing an ISNUMBER test against that result
returns a TRUE if it is there, FALSE if not. This is just what CF needs to
apply the formatting or not.

It works.

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HTH

Bob

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