Highlight Column Conditional Formating

Hi

I have a Excel 2003 workbook and have one single row which contains numbers. I am try to populate A1 with the lowest number in that row, which I can do by =MIN(B1:L1)

However I would like to highlight the 'whole' column (not single cell) that was identified as lowest. How do I dentify the column Letter that is lowest and then highlight this with a color?

Many thanks in advance

Hi,

This is how you do in in Office 2003, unsure about Office 2007.

Select B1

Format Conditional Formatting

Under Condition1
Select Cell Value Is
In the first box select equal to
In the next box $A$1
Click the Format Button and Select Patterns and a colour for the Backround click OK

Copy B1 and Paste Special to C1:L1 Formats only.

Hi,

Thanks for the response, the above works great but it only applies fill affect to one cell. How do I get it to apply fill to the whole column?

Im not sure what to put in the "Use formula to determine which cells to format"

Many thanks

highlight aross your columns B:L then conditional format / formula is

=B$1=min=$B$1:$L$1)

now format your colour

Agreed with grizzly6969, s.t. typo ( rather than =

=B$1=min($B$1:$L$1)

A quick additional comment. When you highlight for conditional formatting, look out for the cell with focus - it's the one that's a slightly different colour than the rest. If highlighting B:L, then it'll be B1; if highlighting in the other direction (L:B, selects same range and shows as B:L), then it'll be L1.

The formula you write is applied to the cell with focus and relative references change from there, so grizzly6969's formula is perfect if you highlight from B to L as indicated! Just watch out for the cell with focus - it's caught me out before!

Thanks very much guys, it worked a treat!

Thanks again for all your help!