Copying Conditional Formatting

Conditional formatting may not engage when copying cells. In the case where formulas simply point to other cells (within the same sheet, or even on other tabs), there is a simple trick that will engage the already established Conditional formatting conditions. Try the following;

1. Select all cells that were copied-to that currently are not working.
2. Verify that the formulas are correct for each cell.
3. Right click and select Format Cells and select General.
4. The remaining steps must be done individually for each cell that was just changed to General formatting;
a. Highlight one cell (at a time)
b. Push and release F2
C. Hit Enter
5. Formatting should begin working immediate for the cell just completed. No repeat for all additional cells.

I hope this helped...

conditional formatting can be copied to other cells using which tool?

Did anyone manage to work this one out?? I'm having a nightmare involving a lot of copy and paste!

So much else with Excel is intuitive, but not this.

Whenever I need to copy/paste conditional formatting, I end up looking all over the internet to try and remember exactly HOW I did it the last time.

Here's today's situation: I want to color cells that already have values in them. The values have nothing to do with the formatting, but the value in an adjacent cell does.

I can do on a cell-by-cell basis, but trying to use formulas/selecting a range to apply this to, it always ends up coloring the cell based on the first example only. I.e., instead of (like everything else you can copy/paste/drag) knowing I mean to restrict it to the adjacent cell IN THE SAME ROW, Excel somehow cannot do this.

How TF can Excel know how to apply dragged/copy+pasted formulas, etc., but NOT KNOW I'm trying to do the same thing with conditional formatting?

Argh!

I've had a problem with copying conditional formatting in a self-designed checkbook. I've basically set up a column where each cell looks at the cell above it, and if it is the same number, it changes color to match the background and "disappear" (If H29 is equal to H28, change color.) Is there ANY way to copy this conditional formatting down the column? I've tried removing the $ before the row, but it does nothing. Any help would be appreciated!

Dear Sir,

is there a way to force textboxes (referring to cells) to show conditional formatting of the cells?

Example:
cell is formatted to show a predefined word instead of number when it is entered. That cell is connected to the textbox in the form I use to print reports. Unfortunately, formatting is not transferred along with the value - it still shows the number.

The format painter is also helpful when copying conditional formats, although it also copies other formatting such as border line width, etc etc.

However, I am stuck on a conditional formatting problem in a large spreadsheet. I want to copy one but not all of the conditional formatting rules from cell A13 to cell B14, and one but not all of the conditional formatting rules from cell C13 to cell B14.. Is this possible; it would be great if I could just click on the rule I want and copy it?? At the moment i have a dummy cell set up for each rule, each cell has only one rule, and I successively copy each conditional format to the target cell. Clunky.. Any better ideas?

Brian D,

I ran into the same difficulty you were having with formulas used in CF not updating the relative references when copying. One way around that is to highlight the all the cells you want CF to apply to. You then open the CF dialog and type in your formula with the relative cell reference and click OK. The formulas then automatically adjust. I'm using Excel 2003. I hope this helps.

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Thanks,

This appears to work for everything but copying a CF that includes a formula referencing multiple cells. Do you have a suggestion on how to copy CF that includes a formula referencing multiple cells? Every method I've tried carries the original cells formula and does not modify the formula to reference the current row. Manually typing in each CF formula won't be fun.

Brian