Conditional Formatting using Vlookup or Find

[andyfry]

Hi,

I've used a couple of tutorials on conditional formatting relating to event calendars but I want to do something slightly different.

I Manage a football club and I want to be able to view 3 months events. I'd like the boxes to be green for home games and Red for away, but also add another colour for funraisers and another for meetings.

It was easy to get the box to turn green when the date existed in a specific column on another sheet but that's as far as I can get.

I've tried MATCH, VLOOKUP and AND others but I'm still scratching my head.

Sheet1, Data contains
Round,Date,Event Type,Opposition
1,01/02/2012,H,Team A
2,08/02/2012,A,Team B
3,15/02/2012,H,Team C
,22/02/2012,F,Fundraiser
,24/02/2012,M,Meeting

Sheet2 Data contains a basic calendar
Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun
01/02,02/02,03/02,04/02,05/02,06/02,07/02
Event Data
08/02,09/02,10/02.......


If I work out how to upload the file, I'm sure it would help.

Cheers

Andy

[TMS]

To best describe or illustrate your problem you would be better off attaching a dummy workbook, the workbook should contain the same structure and some dummy data of the same type as the type you have in your real workbook - so, if a cell contains numbers & letters in this format abc-123 then that should be reflected in the dummy workbook. Don't upload a picture when you have a workbook question. None of us is inclined to recreate your data. Upload the workbook and manually add an 'after' situation so that we can see what you expect. In addition clearly explain how you get the results..
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[andyfry]

events calendar-mock.xlsx

This should make sense now

Sheet1 or Data contains a list of dates on which we have events, each event has a type
H = home match
A = Away match
M = Meeting
F = Fundraiser

The opposition field contains either the team we are playing, or the event description

Sheet 2 or Calv2
Is the actual events calendar
It contains 12 weeks data rolling from the date entered in cell A4. I'd like to be able to add dates to the list in sheet 1 and automatically populate data into the calendar and format the appropriate box with the right background colour based on the event type.

We want to be able to print it out on A3 every 4 weeks (obviously changing the date in A4)

Does that make more sense now?