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From: CW on 21 Apr 2010 11:56 Hi, I have conditional formatting set-up where a range of cells will change colour based on values in another couple of cells. The rule was along the lines of: Cell Value Is between =$D$134 and $E$134 This worked fine however in order to allow me to copy the rule to other rows I removed the '$' signs (based on a recommendation in another post). Unfortunately after copying the formula now no longer works. The rule is now: Cell Value Is between =D134 and E134 Can anyone help by explaining what the '$' does and how I might be able to fix this as I need to be able to copy the rule to a several rows without changing each time. Thanks CW
From: Duke Carey on 21 Apr 2010 12:12
If the values you want to compare ARE ALWAYS in D134 and E134, then you need the $ signs. Those tell Excel to anchor the comparison to those cells. If you are trying to use different compariosn values on each row, so that, fr instance, the D134 and E134 apply to row 134, but row 135 has different values in colmns D & E, then you would remove the $ that precedes the row number, like $D134 Was that at all clear? "CW" wrote: > Hi, > > I have conditional formatting set-up where a range of cells will change > colour based on values in another couple of cells. > > The rule was along the lines of: > Cell Value Is between =$D$134 and $E$134 > > This worked fine however in order to allow me to copy the rule to other rows > I removed the '$' signs (based on a recommendation in another post). > > Unfortunately after copying the formula now no longer works. The rule is now: > Cell Value Is between =D134 and E134 > > Can anyone help by explaining what the '$' does and how I might be able to > fix this as I need to be able to copy the rule to a several rows without > changing each time. > > Thanks > CW |