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Colour Scales on adjacent column to data
Hello STL,
I have a country names in column A, city names in column B and numeric values (population size) in column C. While I can colour scale the values in column C using the automatic one under Conditional Formatting, I cannot work out how to apply this to the adjacent columns A and B.
I want A2, B2 and C2 to be the same colour, depending on the value in C2. Ditto all the way down to A21, B21, C21.
Please can you help?
Kind regards,
Julia
RE: Colour Scales on adjacent column to data
Hi Julia
Thanks for getting in touch. Getting Conditional Formatting to work on adjacent cells can be a little fiddly. I've attached an example, please have a look and adapt it to your own data.
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Gary Fenn
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SUMIF and Conditional Formatting.xlsxRE: Colour Scales on adjacent column to data
Hello Gary,
Sorry I don't think I explained myself very well.
I have the values in column C formated using the colour scale, so the highest is green, down to the lowest in red.
I want the cells in A and B to be formatted the same colour as their corresponding cell in C. It may be that this is not possible.
Thanks,
Julia
RE: Colour Scales on adjacent column to data
Hi Julia
Thanks for clarifying. I've tried some things out and had a search on various support websites and it doesn't look like it's possible without a lot of VBA coding. It's probably more effort than it's worth. Perhaps consider using a different Conditional Format to achieve a similar result?
Kind regards
Gary Fenn
Microsoft Office Specialist Trainer
Tel: 0207 987 3777
Best STL - https://www.stl-training.co.uk
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