Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Excel 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Excel, click here: Copying Conditional Formatting.
In Excel, conditional formatting is considered part of the regular formatting of a cell. If you want to copy conditional formatting from one cell to another, you can do so by simply copying the cell and pasting it (or its format) to another cell. If you want to copy a conditional format to a range of cells (and only the conditional format), the easiest way to do so is by following these general steps:
Figure 1. The Conditional Formatting dialog box.
That's it. Excel does the rest and copies the conditional formatting, as you desired.
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2019-01-18 10:53:01
Jeremy
This is the best way to pull off the conditional formatting in older versions of Excel, in fact I still use Excel 97 because of the ease of formatting. Increasingly tho, I am in need of newer Excel and have bit the bullet and joined Office 365. The conditional formatting is different. I can create the single cell conditions then copy and paste but when I want to make a change to one cell the entire group that was copy/pasted then changes even tho I manually change the range in the edit formatting window. Does anyone have a suggestion how to change the conditional formatting of a single cell that was in a copy/paste????
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