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    Conditional Formatting not working correctly

    Im having some problems with the conditional Formatting on one of my sheets and i can't figure out why.
    Im using a very similar formula for it that I'm using on another sheet, but I can't get it to work properly. I should label every other row a different color, for some some reason some of the rows a remanning white.
    The sheet in question is EquimentData.
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    Re: Conditional Formatting not working correctly

    i am not able to find any rows that have data and remaining white in your sheet..
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    Re: Conditional Formatting not working correctly

    Thats strange. On the EquipmentData sheet (not ReturnData) the following rows appear white for me:
    4, 14, 226, 275, 410, 672, ….1694-1710...

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    Re: Conditional Formatting not working correctly

    That is because in your CF you have the part SUM(A14:D14)<>0. In row 14 for example there is no number, so the sum is null ( text does not count), and the formatting does not apply

    In row 4 f.i. you have a text looking like a number in col B, so again the SUM (A4:D4) is null. Reentering 1002 manually solves the problem

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    Re: Conditional Formatting not working correctly

    Is there a different CF formula I could use that isn't specific to numbers, but rather just the presence of data (number of text)?

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    Re: Conditional Formatting not working correctly

    Try replacing SUM in your conditional formatting formulas with COUNTA

    COUNTA counts text and numbers
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