Hi jp
if you've got three or less conditions check out conditional formatting,
found under the format menu
otherwise here's a copy & paste from an post by Frank Kabel recently:
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If you only want to apply different FONT colors based on NUMBERS, you
can define up to 6 different styles. See:
http://www.mcgimpsey.com/excel/conditional6.html
for instructions how to do it
For everything else you'll need VBA code (e.g. process the
worksheet_change event and apply your format based on the cell values).
The following will color the entry in cell A1:A100 based on its value:
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
If Target.Cells.Count > 1 Then Exit Sub
If Intersect(Target, Me.Range("A1:A100")) Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
On Error GoTo CleanUp
Application.EnableEvents = False
With Target
Select Case .Value
Case "Red": .Interior.ColorIndex = 3
Case "Blue": .Interior.ColorIndex = 10
'etc.
End Select
End With
CleanUp:
Application.EnableEvents = True
End Sub
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found at (
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]&rnum=1 )
hope this helps
Cheers
JulieD
