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    Excel help (Conditional Formatting)

    Was wondering if someone could give me a little help on using the conditional formatting in excel...

    Basically I have a few cells highlighted based on data which looks similar to:

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    1 User Week 1 2 3 4 5 6 Total
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    3 John 0 1 0 1 2 1 5
    4 Dave 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    5 Paul 0 1 0 0 1 0 2

    the cells to be highlighted say will be the horizontal line for 4 ---- Dave, as the total = 0.
    To highlight this usually in excel, I would use the conditional formatting in excel, however I was wondering if this could be changed so that the colour could be taken from a cell value, instead of going through the menus all the time?!
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    Re: Excel help (Conditional Formatting)

    Not without using VBA

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    Re: Excel help (Conditional Formatting)

    How would I go about doing this?
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    Re: Excel help (Conditional Formatting)

    Quote Originally Posted by Workaholic View Post
    How would I go about doing this?
    You will need to write a loop, using if statements to determine which rows should be highlighted.

    If you don't know vba its very easy - I learned it using a combination of the help file, google and playing around recording macros.

    There are many ways to write it, but I would do it using a while loop.

    Sorry, can't really help you much more unless I do it for you...

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