Copy & Paste conditional formatting

happydonut

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Hello,

Could someone help me out here?

I have a sheet with the week number in A1 followed by the dates for that week (starting Monday) in B1 to Friday in F1. Each date has 4 cells with value below (i.e. in cells B2 to B5).
I also have the next week number starting in A10, followed by the dates for that week in B10 to F10... and so on.

Furthermore, I have today's date in cell J1, =TODAY()

What I want to do is, if the date in, for instance B1 is equal to todays date (J1), then the cells below B1 (B2 to B5) should have a background color.
I know how to do this (I did put a conditional formating for B2-B5 with a new rule using the 'Use a formula to determine which cells to format' - where I used if B1=J1.

My question is, can I copy and paste this conditional formatting, so that for each date, when it equals todays date, the cells below that date will be formatted as above?
Or do I need to put a new rule for each date?
 

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Issue you will have is that the formatting will be correct for B11 but once you copy the formatting down, it will look at B11=J1 instead of B10=J1
I would have your dates in a hidden column on the right somewhere and reference that instead on B10, then the following would work
Excel Formula:
G2=$J$1
 
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Issue you will have is that the formatting will be correct for B11 but once you copy the formatting down, it will look at B11=J1 instead of B10=J1
I would have your dates in a hidden column on the right somewhere and reference that instead on B10, then the following would work
Excel Formula:
G2=$J$1
Sorry but I'm not following?
 
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How about
+Fluff 1.xlsm
ABCDEFGHIJ
12628/06/202129/06/202130/06/202101/07/202102/07/202107/07/2021
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
102705/07/202106/07/202107/07/202108/07/202109/07/2021
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
202812/07/202113/07/202114/07/202115/07/202116/07/2021
21
22
23
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25
Main
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
J1J1=TODAY()
Cells with Conditional Formatting
CellConditionCell FormatStop If True
B2:F5,B11:F15,B21:F25Expression=INDEX(B:B,INT((ROW()-1)/10)*10+(ROW()<10))=$J$1textNO
 
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what happens if you do the below for B2-B5 and then copy paste the formatting accross the rest?

Excel Formula:
B2=$J$1
 
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