P (MM/YY) as a date format - is it possible in VBA??

[Noob101]

Hello Again!

My supervisor wants me to create a column in a spreadsheet in Excel 2003 which tracks who has done what courses/who is nominated for them/who is enrolled etc etc BUT she wants it in a (ridiculous) format. Specifically:

P (MM/YY) - The P is for "pass", the date format and she wants it to automatically go green.

Enroll (MM/YY) - Yellow

Nom (MM/YY) - Light Blue

Blank - Red.

As you can see, it would need to be done in VBA somehow but I'm not sure how to set it up. Any help would be so great because she really wants it done ASAP and I am not so great with code. Thankyou so much for helping!

 

[marc j]

Hello,
I am not sure if this is what are looking for but I was able to create a non-vba version with conditional formatting.
I assumed that there must be some name, criteria and the dates you need to highlight.
I had to create 4 different conditional formating.

I highlighted all of the dates in column C and for the first criteria I selected "new rule, use a formula to determine which cells to format"
and in the formula bar I added // =$B2="P" // then i selected the format fill and selected green, then i selected format number and
on the left side selected custom // and in the "type" I added (mm/yy).
I did the same thing for all of the conditions..( =$B2="Enroll", =$B2="Nom", =$B2="")

My dates are in cell C2:C5.

A B C

name	criteria	date
carol	p	6-Jun
mary	enroll	4-Sep
michael	nom	10-Nov
jimmy		4-Sep

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Hope that helps
marcj