Highlight cell if text appears in different column

A picture is worth 1000 words, a sample sheet is worth 1000 pictures!!

You have attached a non-editable picture of an Excel sheet. That's not very easy to work with. Also... I'm lazy. I have to re-type your information before I can begin to address your problem. That puts me off completely.

So.... Do yourself a favour and please attach a SMALL sample Excel workbook (10-20 rows of data is usually enough). However, please give us an indication of the approximate number of rows of data you want the solution to work with (100, 1000, 100,000 or whatever).

Unfortunately the attachment icon doesn't work at the moment. So,... instead click on Go Advanced (below the Edit Window) while composing your reply, then scroll down to and click on Manage Attachments and the Upload window will open. Click on Browse and navigate to (and double-click) the file icon that you want to attach, then click on Upload and then on Close this Window to return to the Edit window. When you have finished composing your post, click on Submit Post.

Make sure confidential information is removed first!!!!

You can use this as the conditional formatting formula:

=SUMPRODUCT(--(NOT(ISERR(SEARCH(Avalible!$A$2:$A$11,B2)))))>0

I added a few more (identical) columns for testing.

You're welcome. Thanks for the Rep.

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