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    HELP: How to use conditional formating to highlight cells that has upper case letters?

    How to use conditional formating to highlight cells that has upper case letters?

    Any other method also welcome.

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    Re: HELP: How to use conditional formating to highlight cells that has upper case letters?

    you mean capitalised as in Singapore or randomly as sIngapOre etc?

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    Re: HELP: How to use conditional formating to highlight cells that has upper case letters?

    as in i have a mix of upper & lower case letters (not words) in the many cells & i want to highlight(change cell colour) those cells with upper case letters only

    example:

    m a B y i e F
    M D k f U e W
    r E g i e R g
    Last edited by nez329; 11-05-2014 at 11:56 AM.

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    Re: HELP: How to use conditional formating to highlight cells that has upper case letters?

    Something like this.

    The cells containing uppercase letters are highlighted.


    Untitled.jpg

    Any advise?

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    Re: HELP: How to use conditional formating to highlight cells that has upper case letters?

    You will need to adjust the references, but try this...

    =EXACT(UPPER(H3),H3)
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    Re: HELP: How to use conditional formating to highlight cells that has upper case letters?

    Quote Originally Posted by FDibbins View Post
    You will need to adjust the references, but try this...

    =EXACT(UPPER(H3),H3)
    1. what do you mean adjust the references?
    2. is H3 referring to references?
    if so, my COLUMN is up to 'JS' & my ROW is up to '515'. How should i indicate it?

    3. Do i select "USE A FORMULA TO DETERMINE WHICH CELLS TO FORMAT"?

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    EDIT:-

    I use this but nothing happen.

    =EXACT(UPPER(JS515),JS515)
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    Re: HELP: How to use conditional formating to highlight cells that has upper case letters?

    i tried on a fresh sheet.

    I use this formula

    =EXACT(UPPER(c5),c5)

    i get this:-

    The highlight do not seem right.

    Untitled 2.jpg

    Any advise?

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    Re: HELP: How to use conditional formating to highlight cells that has upper case letters?

    Im sorry, I assumed you were familar with CF

    1. highlight the range you want to apply the conditional formatting to (If youer range is A2:J100, then that is the range you highlight)
    2. on the home tab, styles, select CF
    3. select new rule, select use formula
    4. enter =EXACT(UPPER(A2),A2)

    Because of how CF works, this will auto-adjust itself for each cell it is applied to, so for instance...
    in A2 =EXACT(UPPER(A2),A2) becomes...
    in A3 =EXACT(UPPER(A3),A3) becomes...
    in B2 =EXACT(UPPER(B2),B2) becomes...
    etc

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    Re: HELP: How to use conditional formating to highlight cells that has upper case letters?

    Based on the sample you provided in post #7, if your range starts in A1, then that needs to be teh reference you use in the CF formula...
    =EXACT(UPPER(A1),A1)

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    Re: HELP: How to use conditional formating to highlight cells that has upper case letters?

    Quote Originally Posted by FDibbins View Post
    Based on the sample you provided in post #7, if your range starts in A1, then that needs to be teh reference you use in the CF formula...
    =EXACT(UPPER(A1),A1)
    Hi Bro.

    Thanks

    It worked on my test set.

    But on the actual spreadsheet, it highlights empty cells as well. Any idea why?

    edit
    I tried copied all the data from the working sheet & paste special (values only) on to a fresh worksheet. It still highlight those empty cells.
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    Re: HELP: How to use conditional formating to highlight cells that has upper case letters?

    Change the CF formula to this...
    =AND(H3<>"",EXACT(UPPER(H3),H3))

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    Re: HELP: How to use conditional formating to highlight cells that has upper case letters?

    Quote Originally Posted by FDibbins View Post
    Change the CF formula to this...
    =AND(H3<>"",EXACT(UPPER(H3),H3))
    Awesome.

    I got it to work only after i copied the data to a fresh worksheet.

    Not sure what is wrong with the current.

    Thank for the help

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    Re: HELP: How to use conditional formating to highlight cells that has upper case letters?

    hi FDibbins.

    What would be the formula if i want to highlight only blank cells instead?

    Thanks

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    Re: HELP: How to use conditional formating to highlight cells that has upper case letters?

    Based on that same sample...

    =H3=""

    I find the best way to figure these out, is to put the formula IN the worksheet itself, and formulate it to give either a TRUE or FALSE answer...CF only works on TRUE/FALSE. Once you have that sorted out, then copy/paste into the CF window

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    Re: HELP: How to use conditional formating to highlight cells that has upper case letters?

    Excel has default conditional formatting rule to do so. You can find it in the conditional formatting box. Go to "Format only cells that contain" and select "blank" under format only cells with tab.

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    Re: HELP: How to use conditional formating to highlight cells that has upper case letters?

    To: nez329
    Excel has default conditional formatting rule to do so. You can find it in the conditional formatting box. Go to "Format only cells that contain" and select "blank" under format only cells with tab.

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    Re: HELP: How to use conditional formating to highlight cells that has upper case letters?

    Quote Originally Posted by FDibbins View Post
    Based on that same sample...

    =H3=""

    I find the best way to figure these out, is to put the formula IN the worksheet itself, and formulate it to give either a TRUE or FALSE answer...CF only works on TRUE/FALSE. Once you have that sorted out, then copy/paste into the CF window
    Thanks for the formula FDibbins.


    Quote Originally Posted by harun7th View Post
    To: nez329
    Excel has default conditional formatting rule to do so. You can find it in the conditional formatting box. Go to "Format only cells that contain" and select "blank" under format only cells with tab.
    Thanks harun7th. Appreciate it.

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