Click on the Format button, go to the Fill tab, and choose a yellow color. Click OK. You can click OK to close any remaining dialog boxes. Your settings should be applied. To edit any of these formulas or other settings, highlight the cells with the conditional formatting applied, and select Manage Rules from the Conditional Formatting ribbon.
1 I am using Excel's conditional formatting/color scales to color a given range of values using the color scale to show the "temperature". So, if my values go -10,-9,-8,...8,9,10 -10 would be dark red while +10 would be dark green. The values in between would be lighter shades of red and green.
If you want to make a excel spreadsheet with all the various colors you would use for a colorblind friendly palette then i can stick it together for you to make the conditional formatting? Then I would put that up as well.
Keep your new column C as above. Select one column at a time, click Home > Conditional formatting > Highlight Cell Rules > Duplicate values... and set your preferred formatting for each column. This method could give different color formatting within one row as opposed to one row being tagged as belonging to one category exclusively.
I would like to know how to change the background color for other cells in the same row depending on the value of the first without changing the values in the other cells.
On one sheet I have a data which has conditional formatting color. I want to copy and paste that into another file, I was able to paste value, column width etc. but I couldn't paste the color from the conditional formatting.
0 I just used format painter for copying conditional formatting and I can confirm that this is working. However, you might take into consideration that the conditional formatting might be based on values in other cells (imagine it's based on cell "A1").
1 I have 2 tables: containing values containing TRUE/FALSE outputs based on a formula that depends on the values of Table 1 I would like to apply condition formatting so that Table 1 cells are color RED with corresponding FALSE outputs from Table 2.
I have a few conditional formatting conditions on my excel sheet that fill in cells with different colors. I am trying to count the number of cells colored by my conditional formatting in excel so ...
Excel could define data type and format, just right click an cell and choose "Format cells...". Inside, it seems you can define conditional format, e.g. if the value is 0 then display in red.
