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How to make a date cell turn red

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    Angry How to make a date cell turn red

    Hope someone can help with this, before I lose the rest of my hair!

    Using Excel 2007

    Cell F20 contains ='book 3'!C11
    The cell is is formatted as a date and simply reads the date from the other sheet.
    I want to make cell F20 turn red if the date is over 30 days ago.

    Sounds simple for conditional formatting, but I just can't make it work. There must be a simple way to make the cell turn red if the date goes over 30 days.

    Help please!!

    TIA
    Last edited by Snaggles; 07-19-2010 at 12:43 PM.

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    Re: How to make a date cell turn red

    Choose to format only cells that contain...

    and then choose Less than and enter =Today()-30

    It cell F20 could be blank, then you can choose Is Between and enter 1 and =Today()-30
    Where there is a will there are many ways.

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    Re: How to make a date cell turn red

    Brilliant... that works!!

    I was close, but hadn't included the ().

    Many Thanks.

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