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    Conditional formatting with percentiles

    Hi,
    I need to conditionally format a row of values based on percentiles - but i need four groupings and need four distinct colours (not scale colours).
    The groupings are:
    Blue - top 15% of values - i.e. 85th percentile and up
    Green - the next 50% of values - i.e. 36th - 85th percentile
    Amber - the next 25% of values - i.e. 11th - 35th percentile
    Red - the bottom 10% of values - i.e. 10th percentile and below

    (fyi i didn't choose these groupings!)

    I tried using the colour scales method but can't have 4 scales and plus they don't want the shading - just those 4 colours.
    I've ended up using the top and bottom ranked function and making four rules with this - which are (in order):
    Bottom 10%
    Bottom 35%
    Top 15%
    Top 65%

    It seems to work but one value is left white and i can't work out why (have attached it). I've tried changing the 35% and 65% to see if it was just on the cusp but even going up and down by 3% doesn't do it.

    Any help on this or a new way of doing it?
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