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Using formula in CF to highlight muliple text items

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    Using formula in CF to highlight muliple text items

    Hi folks!

    I would like excel to use conditional formatting to highlight a cell wherever it sees the first seven characters of a range of text. The normal CF method to highlight text doesn't seem to allow me to select a range of text, only a single text item may be checked in the list.

    I believe the example I have attached explains this a bit better!

    Thank you folks!
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    Last edited by controlfreak; 08-19-2015 at 07:32 AM.

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    Re: Using formula in CF to highlight muliple text items

    Select the entire range (A1:A42)

    Conditional Formatting
    New Rule
    Use a formula to determine...

    =OR(LEFT(A1,7)="SUB0041",LEFT(A1,7)="SUB0042",LEFT(A1,7)="SUB0010")

    Format as required
    Last edited by Special-K; 08-19-2015 at 05:28 AM.
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    Re: Using formula in CF to highlight muliple text items

    Thank you!!

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