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Katie has attended:
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Conditional Formatting

when i have entered date into my table, and i wish to use the "traffic light" system... if some of my boxes are blank but i wish to have two seperate rules for different blank boxes... how can i format some to Amber and some to Red? without entering any data. i would like an automatic response everytime i access the worksheet. Many thanks.

RE: Conditional Formatting

Hi Katie

Thanks for your question.

You will need to have something different in the cells you wish to mark amber to the cells you wish to mark red, as Excel can only apply one rule to one formatting rule.

I hope this helps.
Amanda

Excel tip:

Checking if a calculation adheres to Order of Precedence

When writing formulas you must make sure that results will be calculated as you intended.

Excel adheres to the standard order of precedence for calculations. It calculates percentages, exponents, multiplication, and division in this order before calculating addition and subtraction.

For example, =7+5*3 results in an answer of 22, not 36.

To force a calculation to be completed before another calculations, place the section in parentheses: =(7+5)*3 will result in 36.

To check how excel is evaluating a formula, click on the cell and select the 'Tools' menu, select 'Formula Auditing' and click 'Evaluate Formula'

In the dialog box click on 'Evaluate' to watch as each part of the formula is successively calculated.

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