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    Help with Conditional Formatting For Creating Multiple Choice Drop Down Test

    So I am creating a multiple choice drop down test in excel and I want to make it where the cell would change to the color green if I get the answer right and red if I get it wrong. I know how to do it for each cell individually but that would take a VERY long time.

    So what I thought I could do is make a copy of the column in a another spreadsheet (Label Answer) and make column in the test page (Label Test) change color based on the answer on the other spreadsheet.

    Who what I did was create a new rule in the on the Answer column in "Test" page to change to the color green if the text matches the cells in the on the answer column in the "Answer" page in the same excel file.

    the problem is that this only work on the first question, any question after that doesn't change color at all.

    This is all done using the "format only cell that specific text"

    Here is my example for anyone that can help me out.
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    Re: Help with Conditional Formatting For Creating Multiple Choice Drop Down Test

    =VLOOKUP(A1,Answer!$A$1:$B$100,2,0)=B1
    Try this CF formula
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    Re: Help with Conditional Formatting For Creating Multiple Choice Drop Down Test

    Can you please let me know how to got to that formula? I tried to plug it in my actual test and it say I may not reference other work books

    But the formula does work! So Thanks!
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    Re: Help with Conditional Formatting For Creating Multiple Choice Drop Down Test

    Which version of excel do you have?

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    Re: Help with Conditional Formatting For Creating Multiple Choice Drop Down Test

    I have excel 2013

    And I also have numerous other test with different number of questions. I want to be able to create tests like this moving forward for studying

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    Re: Help with Conditional Formatting For Creating Multiple Choice Drop Down Test

    Take a look at this.
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    Re: Help with Conditional Formatting For Creating Multiple Choice Drop Down Test

    Ok, that work when I copy past the formula into my existing cells. Thanks a lot.

    this my be a stretch, and asking way too much more. But can you explain to me how to got that formula just in case I need to do something like this again with different columns and cell values?

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    Re: Help with Conditional Formatting For Creating Multiple Choice Drop Down Test

    The VLOOKUP formule search the answers on each question.
    This is compared to the given answer
    The result is a TRUE or a FALSE and this is needed for a CF formula

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    Re: Help with Conditional Formatting For Creating Multiple Choice Drop Down Test

    so if I want to use column "C" to put my answer I would have something like this?

    =VLOOKUP(B1,Answer!$B$1:$C$100,2,0)=C1

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    Re: Help with Conditional Formatting For Creating Multiple Choice Drop Down Test

    not this
    =VLOOKUP(B1,Answer!$B$1:$C$100,2,0)=C1
    but this
    =VLOOKUP(B1,Answer!$B$1:$C$100,3,0)=C1

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    Re: Help with Conditional Formatting For Creating Multiple Choice Drop Down Test

    Ok so now that I figure out that I want to input the answer into column C on the Test page but also take the answer from column C on the Answer page, how would I write the formula?

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    Re: Help with Conditional Formatting For Creating Multiple Choice Drop Down Test

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WAEzokHSJM
    Take a look at this how vlookup works.

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