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scotfitz Automatically Changing Colors... 02-18-2009, 12:31 PM
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    Automatically Changing Colors of Wingding Dots

    Automatically Changing Colors of Wingding Dots

    I currently manually insert large dots in certain cells in Column A of my
    spreadsheet based on the contents of cells D67 or D68 and I would like to
    automate the process.

    If D67 contains a Checkmark (Char252) then I would like A1 to
    contain a large BlackDot (Char108) colored Blue. If D68 contains
    a Checkmark (Char252) then I would like A1 to contain a large
    BlackDot (Char108) colored Red.

    I add the Checkmarks in D67 or D68 and they change infrequently so
    there would never be an instance when D67 and D68 both have a
    Checkmark at the same time.

    I don’t know where to start because I need to code the insertion of the
    BlackDot (Char108) and then code the dot a certain color --- either
    red or blue.

    Help is always appreciated.

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    Re: Automatically Changing Colors of Wingding Dots

    Use format/conditional formating on cell A1
    then
    condition 1 formula is
    =$D$67=CHAR(252) choose red font
    condition 2
    =$d$68=CHAR(252) chose blue font
    formula put this in cell a1
    =if(or(d67=char(252),d68=char(252)),"l","") where "l" is lower case L
    but for easiness if you have wing dings 2 in your drop down of fonts P (uppercase) is also a check mark. so make a1 wingdings and d67 d68
    wing dings 2 and then just use uppercase P
    replacing all ref to char(252) in above with "P" including quotes
    eg
    =$D$67="P"
    Last edited by martindwilson; 02-18-2009 at 12:59 PM.

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