

Steps for using conditional formatting with formulas in Excel
You’ve probably heard of conditional formatting in Excel, haven’t you? You can format cells based on their values or insert small symbols, also depending on the cell’s values. One advanced scenario of Conditional Formatting is to use formulas to determine the format. For example, you want to change the background color of cell A if cell B has a certain value. Let’s take a look at how to use conditional formatting with formulas.
Probably the easiest way of understanding the conditional formatting with formulas is with a specific example. Let’s say, we got a simple timesheet. The columns show weekdays Monday to Sunday and the rows contain different people. Each person has one row. We want to cross out the Sunday for each person by changing the background color (in our case green). How do we do that?
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That means in conclusion, when the formula returns “TRUE”, the formatting will be applied. Using the $-sign works the same way as in any other formula.
Please note that you can also use complex formulas. But the more complex the formulas get (and the more cells you use them on), this can significantly decrease the performance and your Excel workbook can get very slow.
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