How do I set up a conditional cell from a drop down list in Excel

I'm working on creating an Expense Form in Excel for the employees in my
company. In cell A7 I have a drop down list consisting of: mileage,
conference, school, seminar, meetings. The following columns or cells of
C,D,E,F,G,H,I - I would like to be conditioned upon the response of the drop
down list. If "mileage" is chosen, is it possible that cells G7,H7, and I7
will gray out and cells C7,D7,E7 and F7 will highlight themselves to be
filled in by the employee. - ??
Any help would be great!!

You could do this using Conditional Formatting and Data validation.

Select cells C7:F7 and add the conditional format of:

Formula is: =$A$7="Mileage"

I selected to fill in Yellow and added the border.

Condition 2:

Formula is: =$A$7<>"Mileage"

I selected to fill in gray with no borders.

Apply the same methodology G:I to highlight or gray out based on the value in A7. You can use the OR function in your Conditional Format formula to accomodate for multiple conditions resulting in the same format.

To further restrict your users, you can utilize the data vaildation. Select C7:F7 and select Data Validation>Allow = Custom and enter

=$A$7="Mileage"

in the formula Bar. This will not allow users to put any data in those cells if A7 is not = to Mileage.

Cheers,

Steve

How do I place the Formula: =$A$7="Mileage" in Conditional Formatting??

I think I'm confused.

Thanks for your help!!


"SteveG" wrote:

>
> You could do this using Conditional Formatting and Data validation.
>
> Select cells C7:F7 and add the conditional format of:
>
> Formula is: =$A$7="Mileage"
>
> I selected to fill in Yellow and added the border.
>
> Condition 2:
>
> Formula is: =$A$7<>"Mileage"
>
> I selected to fill in gray with no borders.
>
> Apply the same methodology G:I to highlight or gray out based on the
> value in A7. You can use the OR function in your Conditional Format
> formula to accomodate for multiple conditions resulting in the same
> format.
>
> To further restrict your users, you can utilize the data vaildation.
> Select C7:F7 and select Data Validation>Allow = Custom and enter
>
> =$A$7="Mileage"
>
> in the formula Bar. This will not allow users to put any data in those
> cells if A7 is not = to Mileage.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Steve
>
>
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Mon,

Select: Format>Conditional Formatting. The default for Condition 1 is "Cell Value Is". There is a dropdown arrow in that cell. When you click on the drop down, the other option is "Formula Is". Select that and the Formula Bar will appear to the right. Click on the formula bar and type = then select cell A7 (it will appear in your formula bar automatically with the $'s) then type ="Mileage" after $A$7.

Remember that in order for the conditional format to apply to all the cells you want, you need to select them all before going to Format>Conditional Formatting.

Hope this clears it up for you.

Regards,

Steve