Conditional Formating

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Hello All

As in Excel we can only do the 3 conditional formating in one perticular cell, is there any formula by which i can do more then 3 Conditional formating.

For e.g. in cell A1 - if i have 5 data as in A, B, C, D, F and if i choose A the colour will be Red, B, as Yellow, C as Green, D as blue and F as pink.

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Sashi
 

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Sashi.Bats said:
Hello All

As in Excel we can only do the 3 conditional formating in one perticular cell, is there any formula by which i can do more then 3 Conditional formating.

For e.g. in cell A1 - if i have 5 data as in A, B, C, D, F and if i choose A the colour will be Red, B, as Yellow, C as Green, D as blue and F as pink.

Thanks
Sashi
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need help
 
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To get more than three formats, you will probably have to use a macro. With a macro, I don't think there is an upper limit.
 
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Hello and welcome to MrExcel.

Right click the sheet tab, select View Code, and paste in

Code: 
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
Dim iCol As Integer
If Target.Address(False, False) = "A1" Then
    Select Case Target.Value
        Case "A": iCol = 3
        Case "B": iCol = 6
        Case "C": iCol = 4
        Case "D": iCol = 5
        Case "F": iCol = 7
        Case Else: iCol = xlNone
    End Select
    Target.Interior.ColorIndex = iCol
End If
End Sub

then close the code window using the X. Try typing one of your letters into A1.

I suspect that you want more than just A1 and those letters so please explain further.

And what happened to "E" :confused:
 
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I hate to leave it at "..for some reason". A quick look at Wikipedia suggests that the E was dropped to avoid confusion with an earlier system in which E stood for Excellent.
 
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gardnertoo said:
I hate to leave it at "..for some reason". A quick look at Wikipedia suggests that the E was dropped to avoid confusion with an earlier system in which E stood for Excellent.
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Well, I've never left the USA, but I always did wonder about that. I
figured that since there was a one letter gap between the two,
nobody would ever get confused about an F! I've only gotten a few
in my years of schooling, but it is annoying to a kid wondering about
why he/she can't just get an E?

Even so, for some reason I always felt that an "F" just meant, well
what "F" stands for in most English-speaking countries. I always felt
like I got F* because I'm an idiot, but of course now I know that's
not true... The idiot part, that is.
 
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