Condtional format a rangeof cells based on the value of one cell.

Permagrin

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Hello everyone.

I need to conditionally shade a range based on the value of single cell.

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I need to shade g25:m30 based on the value of G28. (edit - was G26)

I have selected the entire block, went to conditional formatting and set up a formula based rule with =g28="QPM"

What is happening is only the upper left cell of the range is changed.

I've used conditional formatting many times but this one has me stumped and Google isn't being much help.

Im sure this is very simple.

Thanks!
 
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You need to add $ to the cell reference. Conditional Formatting is smart, so if you have a multi-cell range, Excel will adjust your CF formula as if you were manually dragging it across/down the selected range.

Try this:

=$G$28="QPM"
 
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