If you provide some detail on where the words are inserted, and how you
want the conditional formatting applied, someone may be able to help.
Jon Peltier has instructions for conditional charts:
http://www.peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/format.html#CondChart
Perhaps you can adapt his techniques to your workbook.
> Is it posibble for Excel 2003 to have the column or xy scatter chart be
> filled with a pattern based on what word is inserted? I have tried using
> conditional formating but there is no way of using it.
> Please help

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