colors

[Mir Khan]

Can anyone help me with colors using IF statement.
Column A and Column B has numbers and Column C is a logical field to display
thumps up or thumps down with colr green or red.
I have Thumps Up symbol and Thumps Down Symbol from wingdings font. If
number in Column A is greater it should turn the thumps up sign green in color
and if number in Column A is smaller the color of ThumpsDown symbol should
change to red (defualt color is black and default thumps direction is up)

[David Billigmeier]

Use conditional formatting: Format->Conditional Formatting.

Choose "formula is" and enter this formula for condition 1:

=if(A1>B1,TRUE,FALSE)

Then, for the formatting make the font green and do whatever else you wish
to occur if column A is greater than B.

Likewise make this formula for condition 2:

=if(B1>A1,TRUE,FALSE)

and make this formatting Red color.

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Regards,

David Billigmeier



"Mir Khan" wrote:

> Can anyone help me with colors using IF statement.
> Column A and Column B has numbers and Column C is a logical field to display
> thumps up or thumps down with colr green or red.
> I have Thumps Up symbol and Thumps Down Symbol from wingdings font. If
> number in Column A is greater it should turn the thumps up sign green in color
> and if number in Column A is smaller the color of ThumpsDown symbol should
> change to red (defualt color is black and default thumps direction is up)

[swatsp0p]

Dave's response is just what you need. I would like to ask what you intend to do if A1=B1?

You may want to address this as such:

=IF(A1>B1,"C",IF(B1>A1,"D","K")) formatted as WingDings (the "K" returns the smilely face with no expression). Following Dave's Cond. Formatting, this would be returned in the Automatic font/fill color.

HTH

Bruce

[David McRitchie]

Hi Mir Khan,

If it is the font color you want to change
formula in cell C1:
=IF(A1>B1,1,IF(A1<B1,-1,""))

format in cell C1:
[Green]"C";[Red]"D";"";

Fonts
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/rexx/htm/fonts.htm

Examples for normal cell formatting in
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/formula.htm

Examples for Conditional Formatting in
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/condfmt.htm

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HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
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"Mir Khan" <Mir [email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> Can anyone help me with colors using IF statement.
> Column A and Column B has numbers and Column C is a logical field to display
> thumps up or thumps down with colr green or red.
> I have Thumps Up symbol and Thumps Down Symbol from wingdings font. If
> number in Column A is greater it should turn the thumps up sign green in color
> and if number in Column A is smaller the color of ThumpsDown symbol should
> change to red (defualt color is black and default thumps direction is up)