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    How to turn certain cells green

    I have a file (that is attached) that contains rows of dimensions, and some of them contain an asterisk at the end. I was looking for a way to turn just the cells with the asterisk at the end green, so I tried conditional formatting for cells ending in "*" to have a fill color of green but that didn't seem to work right as none of them turned green. Is there another way to accomplish this?
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    Re: How to turn certain cells green

    Your way worked for me, did you use a * and not a "*" ?

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    Re: How to turn certain cells green

    I used "*", should I have used just a *?

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    Re: How to turn certain cells green

    Yes just remove the quotes and it should work fine

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    Re: How to turn certain cells green

    In cell D2 try the following formula for the conditional formatting.

    =RIGHT(D2,1)="*"
    Apply the desired formatting
    Then copy and paste special (formats) to the remaining cells.

    This should work when the last character in the cell is an asterisk (*).

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