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    Question Conditional Formatting Between Two Sheets

    If anybody can help me with this matter, that would be great.

    I have attached a small version of my spreadsheet for you guys.

    My boss has this project for me to do and I am running into a problem. I have quite a bit of experience using EXCEL, however, I am lacking in the conditional formatting department.

    I have 2 sheets :
    Sheet 1 contains data that corresponds to a Current Project
    Sheet 2 is the Master Data Base

    In sheet 1, I have Col E checking to see if C and D match in Master Data Base. If they match, I then need to check to see if a DJ# that is given in Col A of sheet 1 also matches. When the DJ# matches, I have it display "DJ# MATCH".

    My boss would like....
    If a final "DJ# MATCH" is seen (like in row 11 of sheet 1), she would like that data to be highlighted in the MASTER DATA BASE sheet. In other words, since DJ# MATCH is seen at the end of row 11 in sheet 1, it needs to highlight row 2 (its corresponding data) in sheet 2.

    Is this possible and if so, can anybody help me. I have been working on this for hours and have made no progress.

    Jamie
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    Re: Conditional Formatting Between Two Sheets

    First, since you are using conditional formatting to look at values in another sheet, we need to create a named range.... so in the Current Project sheet, select the whole table from A1:F24 and in the Name Box to the left of the Formula Bar at the top, enter a name.. e.g CurrProject.

    Then in Sheet2, remove the currect conditional formatting rule you created and then select C2:J8 and re-invoke conditional formatting with rule formula:

    =INDEX(INDEX(CurrProject,0,6),MATCH($C2,INDEX(CurrProject,0,1),0))="DJ# MATCH"
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    Re: Conditional Formatting Between Two Sheets

    Thank you soooo much. I don't think I would have ever figured that out. I have never used the INDEX equations before. From all the googling I did, I did know that I needed to name Sheet 1 (which I did). I just didn't know how to use it in a formula in sheet 2. Thanks again.

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