Please help - Conditional formatting

**Shawn1973** · 08-03-2012, 03:58 PM

Hello all,

I am a beginner with Excel and currently struggling with how to format it to do what I want. Here is the skinny. I have a cell "O7" that calculates a total number. I need formulas that according to that number will change the fill color in a column of cells related to that number. If O7 is 1-5 then J5 through J9 force the fill to be yellow. no other columns should be affected. Then if the number in O7 is >=6 and <=10 it will do the same as before but to column k and so on and so forth. I hope this makes sense and someone can help me with figuring this out. I am pretty close but clearly I have done something wrong because not all the cells change the fill in my selection, just the top on I selected. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

**FDibbins** · 08-03-2012, 04:15 PM

try highlighting the entire range of cells you want to CF 1st, and then apply the formula you have, using "use formula"

if this doesnt work, upload a sample and i will give you a hand with it

**Shawn1973** · 08-03-2012, 05:18 PM

I did that the first time, I think it is more in the formula that I am trying to use. I am a beginner and it shows...lol. I am attaching a simple sample of what I am trying to do with a brief description. I think I attached the file correctly. Thanks in advance for the help......

**CheshireCat** · 08-03-2012, 05:55 PM

Try this:

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as the Conditional Format formula.

**Ace_XL** · 08-03-2012, 05:57 PM

In Column D (D1:D13) use
=AND(1<=$K$1,$K$1<=5)

In Column E (E1:E13) use
=AND(6<=$K$1,$K$1<=10) and so on

You could define minimum and maximum limits for each column i separate cells and use them as a reference too. See attached

**Shawn1973** · 08-06-2012, 09:54 AM

Ace,

Thanks! That worked exactly how I wanted....

**Cutter** · 08-06-2012, 11:36 AM

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