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    conditional format (Highlight cell Yellow)

    Hi guys,

    I need you help.

    I have large spread sheet. There might be several cells that are not a direct text, instead the cell values are either reference to another cell or calculated with a formula.
    How can I highlight all those cells yellow. I want to overall see all the cells that are driven value.

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    Re: conditional format (Highlight cell Yellow)

    For your conditional formatting rule, use the function ISFORMULA.
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    Re: conditional format (Highlight cell Yellow)

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    Tried the above. Did not work. See anything wrong here?

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    Re: conditional format (Highlight cell Yellow)

    This process works, if you have any trouble send the document and I will insert the conditional formatting.
    Select Insert, Name, Define.
    In the Define Name dialog box, enter the following in the 'Names in workbook' box

    CellHasFormula
    Then enter the following formula in the "Refers to" box

    =GET.CELL(48,INDIRECT("rc",FALSE))
    Click Add, and then OK.
    Select all the cells to which you want to apply the conditional formatting.
    Select Format, Conditional Formatting
    In the Conditional Formatting dialog box, select Formula Is from the drop-down list, and then enter this formula in the adjacent box (see the figure below):

    =CellHasFormula
    Click the Format button and select the type of formatting you want for the cells that contain a formula.
    Click OK.

    After you've completed these steps, every cell that contains a formula and is within the range you selected in Step 4 will display the formatting of your choice.

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    Re: conditional format (Highlight cell Yellow)

    Appreciate your help.

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    Re: conditional format (Highlight cell Yellow)

    I looked it up and ISFORMULA was introduced in 2013, so you won't have it in 2010. Therefore matt85webb has the right solution. Please let us know if you got that to work.

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    Re: conditional format (Highlight cell Yellow)

    Yes, I was able to use matt's solution. It worked great!

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    Re: conditional format (Highlight cell Yellow)

    I guess we will utilize this feature after our next update. Typically in our office, MS office is normally given low priority for upgrades
    Recently we upgraded 2003 to 2010.

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    Re: conditional format (Highlight cell Yellow)

    Four years from now, when you upgrade to 2013 , the function ISFORMULA can be used to create your CF formula like this:

    =ISFORMULA(A1)

    where A1 is the cell in the upper left corner of the range you want to format, change to suit. (Do that instead of what you showed in post #3 above.)

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