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    Question Conditional Formatting - Highlighting whole row

    Hi all

    Thanks in advance to anyone who solves this for me - It's been annoying me for too long now.
    Basically I want to set up a conditional format which highlights a row red when a product is older than 4 years old.

    The formula I use for this is :
    =$H2>4

    This works and is fine, however it also highlights any rows which do not have any value in them at all. So I basically want to know what formula to use to highlight only rows that have a 'value' that is over 4 and if there is no value to leave it blank. Hope this makes sense!

    Thank you!!
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    Re: Conditional Formatting - Highlighting whole row

    I assume your age is in column H

    if so select all cells and create a new conditional format using this formula

    =$H1 > 4

    if you want to ignore row one then try

    =and($H1 > 4,row()>1)
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    Re: Conditional Formatting - Highlighting whole row

    Hey

    Thanks but this doesnt highlight the whole row only one column - Thats why I removed the $ before the 2. It also still highlights rows that have no value in them at all

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    Re: Conditional Formatting - Highlighting whole row

    if you are selecting all cells you must write the formula as if it is for cell A1.

    So if you are formatting rows then you must use row 1

    and if you are formatting columns then you must use column A

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    Re: Conditional Formatting - Highlighting whole row

    Im really sorry but it still doesnt seem to work on mine! I have attached my spreadsheet for you to see.

    Thank you

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    Re: Conditional Formatting - Highlighting whole row

    I have tried this - changed highlighted area to the whole spreadsheet. Used your formula and still it highlights empty fields. Please can you try it on mine and see if it works.

    Thanks

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    Re: Conditional Formatting - Highlighting whole row

    Try:

    =AND(ISNUMBER($H1),$H1>4)

    I selected columns A to H and used this formula with your data and it worked.

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    Re: Conditional Formatting - Highlighting whole row

    AMAZING!!!! Thank you so much this worked!!!!

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