Monster Conditional Formatting

Hi Deon, welkom aan die forum

Waar omtrent in SA? PE old boy here, from Klerksdorp, now living in USA

Im a bit confused about what goes into the "red" cells, and what that needs to be compared against?




To best describe or illustrate your problem you would be better off attaching a dummy workbook. The workbook should contain the same structure and some dummy data of the same type as the type you have in your real workbook - so, if a cell contains numbers & letters in this format abc-123 then that should be reflected in the dummy workbook.

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1. highlight the range you want to apply the conditional formatting to (B8:E8 in your case - Extend that for your whole range)
2. on the home tab, styles, select CF
3. select new rule, select use formula
4. enter =NOT(AND(B8="",OR(B$7=$F8,B$7=$G8)))

Please try CF Formula at B2:E33

=NOT((B$1=$G2)+(B$1=$F2))*(($G2<>"")+($F2<>""))+ISNUMBER(B2)

It worked on your sample data. I started it in B8:E8

See the attached