{"id":535,"date":"2014-02-04T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T15:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/?p=535"},"modified":"2014-02-04T07:00:39","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T15:00:39","slug":"ms-excel-conditional-format-formula-copy-and-paste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/ms-excel-conditional-format-formula-copy-and-paste\/","title":{"rendered":"MS Excel Conditional Format Formula Copy and Paste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normally I would just use a diff tool to compare text. \u00a0However sometimes a spreadsheet like MS Excel comes in handy to visually communicate to other people as well.<\/p>\n<p>Conditional formatting is one way to accomplish this. \u00a0However I struggled getting the conditional formatting to copy to many rows. \u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">For some reason the formula kept to a static cell in the newly form<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">atted cells. \u00a0Finally got it to work as follow. \u00a0The screenshot indicates the end result I was after. \u00a0I needed to have conditional formatting to two separate columns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-536\" alt=\"Excel_Formatting_Patste_Issue\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Excel_Formatting_Patste_Issue.png\" width=\"587\" height=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The answer was to setup your conditional formatting exactly the way you need it in your first cell (F2 in my case).<\/p>\n<p>Remember to remove the row <strong>$<\/strong> in the formula to make sure its not static. \u00a0As in <span style=\"color: #339966;\">$B2:$F2<\/span> and NOT <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">$B$2:$F$2<\/span> by default.<\/p>\n<p>Then <strong>DOUBLE CLICK<\/strong> the paintbrush and apply format to new cells.<\/p>\n<p>Before double clicking the paintbrush the formula would never increment the cells in the formula.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally I would just use a diff tool to compare text. \u00a0However sometimes a spreadsheet like MS Excel comes in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spreadsheet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ls-al.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}