- #Tableedit app conditional formatting how to#
- #Tableedit app conditional formatting full#
On the Excel Ribbon's Home tab, click Conditional Formatting.Except for the first row, select all the rows with the same conditional formatting rules.Any special formatting in other rows will be replace by the row 1 formatting. WARNING: ALL formatting in the first row will be copied to the other rows. To remove the duplicate conditional formatting rules, follow the steps below fix extra rules manually, or with a macro.And all those rules could slow down your workbook's calculation speed.
You can read about one of my conditional formatting nightmares on the Contextures Blog, and see many comments from other Excel users who've had similar experiences. That's how you can end up with hundreds of duplicated rules!. When a conditional formatting rule refers to a different row, Excel might create extra rules every time you insert or delete rows within the formatted range of cells. The Date Border rule compares date in current row (A3), to date in row above (A2):. In this example, extra conditional formatting rules are created because the one of the conditional formatting rules has a formula that refers to another row. The new rule applies to row 10 only, and it has a #REF! error. The original rule has changed, and excludes the deleted row. Then, go to Conditional Formatting | Manage Rules, to see that a new rule for the top border was automatically created. In the list of sales orders, delete row 10, with the Los Angeles order for Bars. You can try the following steps in the sample workbook ( below), to see how a new condtional formatting rule is automatically created by Excel. However, the problem can be easily created in this example. You probably won't run into problems with most of the condtional formatting rules that you set up. Formatting is set for a blue top border. NOTE: There is a $ before each A, because we need an absolute reference to column A. In the Conditional Formatting drop down, I used the New Rule option, with this formula, to compare the dates in two rows: =$A2 $A3. To set up the rule for the Date separator, I selected all the data cells in the sales order table. In the Conditional Formatting drop down, I used Highlight Cell Rules - Greater Than setting, for 500. To set up the rule for the Price column, I selected the cells in the Price column. NOTE: If you're not sure how to set up rules on your Excel worksheet, there are written steps and a video on the Apply Conditional Formatting to a Cell page. Here's a quick overview of how the conditional rules were set up in the Excel table for sales orders.
Both rules are applied to cells in rows 3 to 19. The two rules in the Excel table are listed. In the Show formatting rules for: drop down, This Table is selected. In the Conditional Formatting Rules Manager: Click Conditional Formatting, then click Manage Rules. On the Excel Ribbon, click the Home tab. Select a cell in the Excel table heading row. To see the existing Conditional Formatting Rules, follow these steps: NOTE: Click this link to see many more conditional formatting examples This marks the row where each day's data starts Date: Add a blue top border across the entire table row, if date in column A is different from date in row above. 
This makes it easy to spot the highest prices Price: Turn price cell green if amount is higher than 500.
In this Excel table, there are 2 conditional formatting rules: In this example (from the video above) there is a worksheet with a small formatted Excel table with sales orders, on a worksheet named Example.
The written instructions are below the video, and the full transcript is at the end of this section. Watch this video to see how the conditional formatting nightmare happens, and how to fix the duplicate rules. If you set up conditional formatting rules, you might see a problem later, with new rules being created automatically. Get the Sample Files Fix Conditional Formatting Extra Rules
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