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Conditional formatting based off cell with text? (i.e. "less than     80%")

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velasquez.m@gmail.com - 13 Feb 2008 16:46 GMT
Is Excel 2007 smart enough to do this?

I have an instance where I need conditional formatting set up for a
cell
whose condition is based off of another cell.
But the second cell with the condition is a not a simple number or
percentage.
It contains a text condition like "Less than 10%" or "70% or greater".

Is this even possible in Excel?
And the text can be tweaked but for appearance's sake...as close to
the
examples posted as possible.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance.
Roger Govier - 13 Feb 2008 17:21 GMT
Hi

You could use custom Formatting of cells instead of using text.
Format>Cells>Number>Custom> "Less than"  #.0%
and also "Greater than"  #.0%

What will display will be Less than 10.0% but the underlying value will
still be just 10%
Use Conditional Formatting as described in your previous posting, using
Numbers not %

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Roger Govier

> Is Excel 2007 smart enough to do this?
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> Thanks in advance.
velasquez.m@gmail.com - 13 Feb 2008 18:56 GMT
On Feb 13, 10:21 am, "Roger Govier"
<roger@technology4unospamdotcodotuk> wrote:
> Hi
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Ok, thanks Roger!
Sorry about jumping from thread to thread, I'm not sure how things are
moved and duplicated here and got a bit confused...?
 
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