Use format of one cell to change type of format used in conditional format

I don't know if it matters but I am working on an .xls document in compatibility mode using MS excel 2010.

Using this forum I was able to write conditional formatting formulas that would automatically change the color of entire rows anywhere on the spreadsheet whenever 1 of 6 different names were entered in one column and the next column contained either "PU" or "DO". This was a great feat for me as I am by no means an expert and do not know VBA. However cool this was, I would still need to rewrite the conditional formatting for the entire sheet when new names occur in the future.

I would like to select which format type used in conditional formatting remotely - e.g. by formatting a cell (say T1) in Green I could then have the conditional format refer to that cell to select green text formatting to use on the proscribed condition.

-__T__U
1__1__Matthew
2__2__Landon

A related, and likely simpler request is to also have conditions referenced remotely - e.g. a list of names that would trigger the conditional formatting.

Ideally the name could be formatted as desired to show in conditional formatting, then I could skip colored numbers & just have list of names.

In this way, as the possible names change over time I would not need to rewrite the formulas to conditionally format the worksheet, I could write the formulas once and then just enter names in a list using formatting I desire and the conditional format formulas would do the rest!

Thanks FDibbins, even though it's not the answer I hoped for, at least I can stop looking now...from what I've seen so far, if it could be done you would have known something about it.

On the other hand, if I give up on the "remote text formatting" idea I think it's possible to have all of the desired text colors as separate rules within the CF window - each color rule having a formula referring to a cell in a list of names. Does that make sense?

I would still need to make a rule for each text format color or style, but that would have way fewer possibilities than all the unknown future names I might otherwise need to write a rule for.

It seems like I ran across something on this forum that used a variable external list of "triggers" for conditional formatting, but I was searching for something else at the time and now after hours of searching I can't find that post again.

Should I start a new post for this question?