If statements and conditional formatting

**confusedcontroller** · 02-10-2011, 07:00 AM

Hi

I have the following information....
Wk1 Result Calls Days
130 Met 130 4
60 Not 60 5
11 Not 11 5
155 Met 155 5
130 Met 130 5
110 Met 110 4
55 Met 55 2

Formula in Result is.....=IF(F7/G7>=V3,"Met","Not").
The value in V3 is currently 130.

What i want to do is be able to conditionally format the values in Wk1 so that if they are above or equal to 130 they go green, below 130 they go red. I have done this and it works, however if/when the values in Calls/Days are changed, the conditional formatting in Wk1 doesn't update.

Help please, this is driving me insane!

Thanks

**TMS** · 02-10-2011, 07:08 AM

I'd suggest you change V3 to $V$3 in both the formulae and the Conditional Formatting.

Regards

**Domski** · 02-10-2011, 07:09 AM

What range is your data table in?

Don't really understand how your formula in the result column relates to it.

Dom

**Marcol** · 02-10-2011, 07:13 AM

I'll second that Dom

Hi confusedcontroller

Welcome to the forum

You would do best to post a sample workbook showing your Sheet Layout and perhaps Before and After examples.

It should clearly illustrate your problem and not contain any sensitive data.

Cheers

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**confusedcontroller** · 02-10-2011, 07:37 AM

Hopefully the attachement worked.

The end result would be that columns C,D and E will be hidden. Column B will show a figure and be highlighted green or red depending on the value of column C.

E.G. If C2 is green and "Met" then B2 would show the number from D2 and be highlighted green.

I did format this but have done something wrong as when/if the figures in columns C and D are changed, this didn't affect the formatting in coumn B.

Any thoughts?

**Marcol** · 02-10-2011, 08:32 AM

I can't see a problem with what you have.
Did you want Column B to show formatting not C as your sample shows?

However I have changed the formatting to use a simple formula.

If you don't want the whole row within the table formatted, change the
Applies To
from =$A$2:$E$8
to =$B$2:$B$8

Hope this helps, it's only a guess.

**confusedcontroller** · 02-10-2011, 10:08 AM

Maybe if i explain what i am aiming for it might be easier to understand.

We have a call target of 26 calls per day, pro-rata.
I want the table to show, in 1 column, how many calls have been made and whether this met the target or not.

Your changes are ok, until you change the amount of calls, the target may then not be met but the format was still green.