Conditional formatting numbers with units

[panmuskul]

Hi All,

I would like to use conditional formating in my spreadsheet with both numbers and letters (units) but don't know how. For example I have 100 kg in one cell how do I highlight values that ate above and below 100 kg ?

Thanks for your help

[AliGW]

One example won't be enough for us to give you an answer, especially if there are other weights and measures involved.

There are instructions at the top of the page explaining how to attach your sample workbook.

A good sample workbook has just 10-20 rows of representative data that has been desensitised. It also has expected results mocked up, relevant cells highlighted and a few explanatory notes.

[panmuskul]

Hi Ali,

Good point, just added a sample to my original post. Thanks a lot

[AliGW]

As you are in Southampton, I am wondering why you are using the comma as a decimal separator??? Is this correct? It does matter.

[AliGW]

Anyway, as it stands, the two rules would be:

=--SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(C3,",",".")," m","")<4

=--SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(C3,",",".")," m","")>9

These would be applied to C3 and then the entire range defined in the Applies To box.

[panmuskul]

Hi Ali,

Thanks for your reply. To answer your question about comma - I am currently living in Poland and here we use comma as a decimal seprator.

I don't really understand the solution, would you mind attaching an excel spreadsheet with those rules applied ? I hope it's not too much trouble.

Thank you

[AliGW]

I did attach a workbook 15 minutes ago ... Can you not see it? I thought you had looked at it???

However, given your disclosure, the rules won't (or may not) work.

Try these instead:

=--SUBSTITUTE(C3," m","")<4

=--SUBSTITUTE(C3," m","")>9

You may need to change the comma to a semi-colon in these rules for a Polish locale.

I am currently living in Poland ...

Please update your profile. The location is important so that we know which locale you are likely to be using.

[panmuskul]

It works ;] perfect thank you very much

[AliGW]

Fab!

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