Mark highest value?

[thomexcel]

Is it possible to mark highest value (numbers in this case) with bold. Like a match where a player wins 4 and the other a 3, can I make Excel automatically mark 4 because it's bigger than 3 with bold?

[BadlySpelledBuoy]

You could use conditional formatting to do this.

If you select the relevant cells then go to "Home / Conditional Formatting / New Rule" you should see an option for "Format only top or bottom ranked values".

Set it to "Top" and "1" then apply the bold formatting and you're done.

BSB

[thomexcel]

You could use conditional formatting to do this.

If you select the relevant cells then go to "Home / Conditional Formatting / New Rule" you should see an option for "Format only top or bottom ranked values".

Set it to "Top" and "1" then apply the bold formatting and you're done.

BSB

Thanks for the reply But I want it only to mark the highest value, I followed your tutorial and it marked both the lowest and highest (values are 4 and 6).

[BadlySpelledBuoy]

I can think of two possible issues.
1) You didn't set the "Top" value to 1. If it's set to 4 it will highlight the top 4 values, if it's set to 1 it will only highlight the top 1.
2) Your values are stored as text rather than numbers.

Check both of those things and report back.

BSB

[Glenn Kennedy]

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4. Try to avoid using merged cells. They cause lots of problems!

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