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    conditional formatting based on text & blanks

    Hi Experts,

    I have in cell AF2 a drop list, if a word "cancelled" being chosen & from cell AE2 to AH2 is blank, I want to highlight the full row from A2 to AI2 with yellow color. How can this be done with conditional formatting??

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    Re: conditional formatting based on text & blanks

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    set your format and apply the format to A2:AI2
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    Re: conditional formatting based on text & blanks

    Thank you for your reply.

    Unfortunately it didn't work. AH2 is blank and it didn't highlight the full row?
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    set your format and apply the format to A2:AI2

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    Re: conditional formatting based on text & blanks

    Try selecting AH2 and hitting delete. If you aren't aware of it COUNTA will count anything that is contained in a cell (visible or not) even if it is a null ("").
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    Re: conditional formatting based on text & blanks

    Is that range really blank - as in, it contains nothing - or does it have a formula in it?
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    Re: conditional formatting based on text & blanks

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