tough condtional formatting question

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Takeadoe

Gang,

I spent the last hour searching through some 600 posts on conditional
formatting. I found some elaborate solutions, but I'm thinking maybe
I'm asking too much with the following:

A sample row looks like the following:

1 1 2 2 3 4 4 5 5 3 3 3 4 4

I would like to change the fill color of the cell when the value of the
cell changes. In most cases there are no more than 3 or 4 different
values out of 25 in the row and in most cases they either descend or
ascend throuhout. Problem is I have 88 rows and the values vary
considerably across rows. So, I guess what I'm after is - if the cell
to the left is different, change colors, otherwise, don't. As always,
help is genuinely appreciated.

Am I asking way too much?

Mike
 
Based on your sample which will fill the range A1:N1.....

Select the range B1:N1
Goto Format>Conditional Formatting
Formula Is: =B1<>A1
Click the Format button
Select the desired style(s)
OK out

Biff
 

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