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Conditional Formatting HELP to identify specific text, change cell colour & remove date.

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    Conditional Formatting HELP to identify specific text, change cell colour & remove date.

    Hi, help needed writing a formula please.

    See attached example spreadsheet for information.


    Thanks you in advance of anyone's help
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    Re: Conditional Formatting HELP to identify specific text, change cell colour & remove dat

    conditional formatting as such cannot remove text from a cell, you can just keep background colour and text colour same.
    the conditional formatting formula that can be used here is
    =left($A1,2)+0=40 then select colour as green and font colour as green to make date invisible.
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    Re: Conditional Formatting HELP to identify specific text, change cell colour & remove dat

    Hi, I didn't think it was possible to delete cell content but thought I would ask, you provide a good work around. For the less experienced excel user, can you conform what the 2 represents please in the formula.

    Also, if Cell "K" is blank it also turns the respective cell green. If there a way of discounting blank cells?

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    Re: Conditional Formatting HELP to identify specific text, change cell colour & remove dat

    left(text , number of characters you want to take)
    2 in above function is taking first two letter from cell.

    what do you mean by Cell "K" ??

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    Re: Conditional Formatting HELP to identify specific text, change cell colour & remove dat

    Great thank you for the explanation. Ooops sorry was looking at the master spreadsheet, I meant Column A not K (Storage Temp).

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    Re: Conditional Formatting HELP to identify specific text, change cell colour & remove dat

    I did not encountered that if any cell in Column A is blank then also it would turn green

    check the attachment
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    Re: Conditional Formatting HELP to identify specific text, change cell colour & remove dat

    Finally got it to work, think it was conflicting with other formatting.

    Thank you vmuch for your help

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    Re: Conditional Formatting HELP to identify specific text, change cell colour & remove dat

    you are welcome Redders ! Glad I could help

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    Re: Conditional Formatting HELP to identify specific text, change cell colour & remove dat

    Being cheeky, I have another thread related to the same spreadsheet if you could offer any help. No problem if you cannot thought I would ask.

    Its called " Conditional Formatting for KPI (Key Performance Indicators) to determine missed expected data & Totals"

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