Conditional formatting Query

BarrattsMini

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Hi all,

First post and I did try searching but couldn't seem to find what I was looking for.

I would like to have a row highlighted in red if blank which is easy enough. But, should any cell within that row have an entry I would like the row to no longer be highlighted.

The purpose here sits around when a particular case will be put forward for a meeting. Ideally every case in the spreadsheet would be aligned to a particular meeting, once a month, for review. Sometimes however we receive a case and the owner still has to flesh out the detail and isn't willing to commit to a particular month at that moment in time. I would like the row to be a certain color, say red, so I know to chase them for a date but once they do commit I'd like the row to no longer be formatted in red.

I hope this makes sense and thank you.
 

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Hi BarrattsMini,

You should probably restrict which rows and columns but if it's the entire sheet then this will do it:

Book1
AB
1
2
33
4
5
Sheet1
Cells with Conditional Formatting
CellConditionCell FormatStop If True
1:1048576Expression=COUNTIF(1:1,"<>")=0textNO
 
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Hi Toadstool,

Thanks for coming back.

I realize my query wasn't specific enough as I said "row" as though it was an entire row that needed the formatting where as it's only part of a row. So the full range would actually be R2:AC281. Sorry about this.

So Columns A through to Q have data in there and then columns R through to AC are the potential meetings they could be aligned to so far. As you can probably workout it's a meeting a month and it is currently looking at Jan of this year through to December of this year. I would like for those 12 cells in a row to be red but if I add a 'X' to any month once they commit to presenting at that meeting then none of the 12 cells in that row appear red any more ...

I'm hoping this is clearer and I apologize for my first post ...
 
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Try this. Note the formula and range have changed

BarrattsMini.xlsx
RSTUVWXYZAAABAC
1
22/2/2021
3
41/1/2021
5TBD
6
7
83
Sheet1 (2)
Cells with Conditional Formatting
CellConditionCell FormatStop If True
R2:AC281Expression=COUNTIF($R2:$AC2,"<>")=0textNO
 
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Try this. Note the formula and range have changed

BarrattsMini.xlsx
RSTUVWXYZAAABAC
1
22/2/2021
3
41/1/2021
5TBD
6
7
83
Sheet1 (2)
Cells with Conditional Formatting
CellConditionCell FormatStop If True
R2:AC281Expression=COUNTIF($R2:$AC2,"<>")=0textNO
PERFECT

Thank you very much.
 
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