Well edited, demonstrated, and most of all, superbly explained. The explaination (e.g. at 3:17) of what happens when you put only A2 and don't modify, was very informative. I've struggled to really understand how to highlight an entire row in spreadsheets, and you're video has helped me to finally 'get it'. Thank you for a tremendous video tutorial.
Yes! I love the fact that you showed different iterations of how slight variations would affect the formula. Most tutorials just go "oh, and then you do a bizzlion things, just like this, and this amazing thing happens", but that's not very helpful. Thank you very much!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!! That worked! I was having issues with date highlighting, so I'm so very glad that you did that second example at the end. I will definitely be watching more of your videos! :D
The formula itself didn't work for the issue I was having but the logics made me understand what I was doing wrong and I was able to fix the issue. Thank you!
Many thanks - your instructions in this video were so clear, it helped me figure out how to do this for my purposes in less than one minute! (You even knew where I had gotten stuck, haha!)
I need help: Based on a series of dates - I'm looking to highlight a single row based on the closest future date to the dates on my spreadsheet. However, it keeps highlighting ALL the future dates and I just need to know the closest ONE. How can I change it from highlighting ALL future/upcoming dates to just THE one upcoming date? Thank you in advance
Hello, Thank you for the great and well-demonstrated video. I still have some problems with conditional formatting. There is the table of everyday sales within a month and I need to show in seperate figure how much they are selling daily using Today function. For example, today they sell $100 and it should be shown in that figure automatically. I would appreciate if you can help in figuring that out.
What if the line containing text is more complicated, and the formula should color if the cell contains the text, but is not equal exactly to the text?
for some reason, this doesn't work on mine everytime I add the "" .. It's okay with numbers cause I dont' need to put the "", but I'm making another condition for an exact text,
Thanks so much, this was extremely helpful! Any tips on how to do this for a date range (say between 1/1/2022 and 1/31/2022? I'm trying to highlight areas of my yearly expense tracker by month). Thanks in advance!
@Joshua Coleman good job explaining conditional formatting with ease. I've got a question. If I have a database with columns A: Index, B: name of an animal, C: animal type where column C contains text values f.e. "white cat", "black cat", "grey cat", "blue cat", "purple lion" (so not only cats are on the list) etc. and I want to colour rows with cats except for the "blue cat" and I want to use only one Custom formula instead of 1) "=SEARCH("black cat";$C2)"; 2) =SEARCH("white cat";$D2) ... Any solution?
Hm, I know most of this already but what I can't figure out is how to make a custom formula with as condition "contains a certain text" - I can use the default "contains" option but this will not highlight a row. What I want is if a certain word occurs in column A, then the row in which it occurs gets highlighted. But the the cells contain multiple different words and numbers as text.
I have a list that has values gotten from another neighbouring sheet , what i would like to do is to create a list only on those that have a value greater than cero, but i only want to show those that have a value in that list , i have like 20 diferent rows and i what happens to me now is that i show them all even when their adquired value from the othersheets is 0 , i would rather only make a list for those 20 items on those that have a value greater than cero , is that possible ?
Great workaround. Question: I'm working with Color Scale in conditional formatting and it works for percentages from 100 to 0 BUT if all the values are 0% it gives them the high value color AND this at first glance can be perceived as 100% NOT 0%. So I have a sorted column for DRAFT documents that ALL have an initial value of zero that are now being colored as 100%. Any work around for this?
I wanted to have the cell change colour every day. Fir example today blue, tomorrow green and next day different colour and so. Without having a date put in any column. Is this doable?
Great video and format; very helpful! But what if the condition is simply any text or number is entered into the reference cell? For example, if a date is entered into H1 the row turns green. (any date, any format, or simply any text)?
Can you tell me how can i use conditional formatting for text length E.g. if we put mobile number into the cell more than or less than 10 digit than the cell color should be change Pls help
How we can highlight new entry automatic on whole sheet(Mean where ever i want to entry any data that should highlight please guide me Thanks(without select any specific word)
Is there a conditional formatting formula for date/time if time is between certain hours? For example - If time is between 8AM and 5PM highlight cell green.
For some reason, this just doesn't work for me. It will just highlight a random row in the range that'll change color even if that specific row doesn't contain what the formula makes true. I can't get it to work at all unless I individual modify every cell I want to change.
Are you able to help. I would like to create a study tracker that will highlight the topics in one row red that were last learned (date in another column) 2, 4 then 6 days ago.. is this even possible? Do I need to put learning dates in different columns (I would Like to keep track of how often I study the topic) or should I just update the one row with the last date I studied?
How do I get it to search in a cell for a word that has other words? Example: in cell D2 I would have WWW CANCELED. I have to backspace over the WWW and replace it with Canceled now
instead of highlight, are we able to add a conditional formula for math? For example if cell A="name" then it will add up all the cells that meet the condition. Is this possible?
You're videos are great, thank you! Question: I use a large spreadsheet everyday with a wide spread of information on it. One of the columns includes dates that are our deadline. Is there a formula I can put in that at one month out, the box will turn red? (3 months from deadline it will turn orange, 6 months out, yellow) So as I get closed to the deadline, I notice the color change. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
@@ProlificOaktree That would be 30 days from today though wouldn't it? I need the color to change 60 (Yellow), 45 (orange), & 30 (red) days out from specified deadline, showing we're getting closer to our deadline. Thank you again!
I thought this video was very helpful but for some reason my spreadsheet is not correctly coloring the rows even if I do it exactly as you said. Not sure what I am doing wrong
Nice videos. Watch a lot of your videos. Is there a way for e.g. if I need to highlight multiple countries based on text match for instance highlight cell C for countries matching Indonesia, India, Chile, Belarus and Sweden. Formatting purely based on multiple Text matches? Thanks a lot.
Thanks, I'm glad to hear that you like my videos! I plan to make a lot more just like these ones. As far as what you're asking about, you're probably best off to use the IFS function. It's built to have multiple conditions. You might have to combine it with the OR function.
Thanks for a great video. I learnt a great deal watching it! However, I'm still trying to figure out how to use conditional formatting for my problem: I have a bunch of different dates in column B - these are for when something should be reviewed. If the cell next to that date, in column C, is empty after the specific date in column B, I want that cell to turn red Any advice on how to do this? Thanks!
awesome video, I'm working with a sheet that I want to count every row in increment if condition is met, for example if column A="Name" then counts it, and add the count in the previous column, same rown, if it founds the same "Name" add the number and the counter should say #2, and so on.... I cannot figure it out
I'm trying to figure out how to do this with a non exact match, I want to color lines based off if the notes contain "DNC", but this method seems to only work if the only thing in the cell is "DNC"
I am trying to highlight rows in which the date in a specific column is before today. Other columns also have dates, but only this particular column matters. Can you help?
I have a spreadsheet with about 2000 words. Then I have a list of about the same amount of words...I need to check my list of words against the spreadsheet and if the word from the list is on the spreadsheet I need it to fill to a specific color...can you help me please?
Anybody know how to make this work with checkboxes? Im tryin to have the checkboxes export as a value "DONE" and have the conditional formatting check for that, but it's just not highlighting the row??
Well edited, demonstrated, and most of all, superbly explained. The explaination (e.g. at 3:17) of what happens when you put only A2 and don't modify, was very informative. I've struggled to really understand how to highlight an entire row in spreadsheets, and you're video has helped me to finally 'get it'. Thank you for a tremendous video tutorial.
Yes! I love the fact that you showed different iterations of how slight variations would affect the formula. Most tutorials just go "oh, and then you do a bizzlion things, just like this, and this amazing thing happens", but that's not very helpful. Thank you very much!
Anytime! Glad it could help you out.
Thank you! I had been beating my head against the wall trying to get this to work. Of course, adding the "$" fixed it! Appreciate your video.
The second example is EXACTLY what im looking for, thank you so much Sir, God bless you for sharing these knowledge for free.
You are very welcome
Excellent video, I read their instructions several times, and couldn't figure out how to do precisely what you showed us. Fantastic!
Great to hear!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!! That worked! I was having issues with date highlighting, so I'm so very glad that you did that second example at the end. I will definitely be watching more of your videos! :D
Glad I could help!
You are incredible! I am learning so much from you and it's help my business. Appreciate your brain!
Awesome, thanks!
thank you so much, you have no idea how you helped me!
I wish all the happiness in the world to you and your family!
Thank you! I was close but didn't realize I needed to add the quotation marks around the value in the formula - ah, nuance!
No you've got it!
Fantastic. Solved my dilemma! Thank you sir!
Excellent!
The formula itself didn't work for the issue I was having but the logics made me understand what I was doing wrong and I was able to fix the issue. Thank you!
Fast, simple, accurate, Thank you! You save me 30 min of trying.
Awesome, glad it helped.
Thanks so miuch. Super simply explained and the examples of what happens if you use a different condition were helpful to see.
Glad it helped!
Thank you so much for this, I was really struggling and this solved my issues. I feel like a pro now!!!! Thank You!!!
THANK YOU! Building a work tracker and this was a MASSIVE help.
Don't work too hard. Or maybe do. I don't know.
You are literally the Michael Pollen of technology, Appreciate it!!
Ooh yeah, thanks! I read a book written by him that told me to eat lots of green things.
@@ProlificOaktree Haha yeah np, Im reading his book that just came out few days ago on audible super phenomenal.
Your videos are always on point. I always get what I'm looking for. Thank youuuu
3:20 was what I had trouble before this. Thank you!
Thank you so much, I was struggling to figure out this solution by myself. Didn't know about the $!!
Outstanding!! My new job log is over the top now!!
Many thanks - your instructions in this video were so clear, it helped me figure out how to do this for my purposes in less than one minute! (You even knew where I had gotten stuck, haha!)
thanks - this helped me solve a formatting conundrum
Thank you so much. This was so exactly what I wanted to achieve. Great tutorial that was well explained
Thank you, mission accomplished!
Thanks! Great video, short and accurate! Congratulations! Works perfectly and solves many problems!
Glad it helped!
Thank you for saving me from many more hours of frustration! Was about to chuck my laptop out the window when I found this video.
Very helpful and clearly explained! Thank you!
Thank you for solving my problem. I appreciate it.
that's really helpful for building my cool scoreboard and planning things out in a creative way
Score! Sorry, couldn't resist.
Thank you, you solved my problem i was looking since 3 days this trick
Thank you, this is a "lifesaver" right now!!!
Glad I could throw you a line.
thank you! very detailed explantion.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks so much! Exactly what I was looking for!
Great to hear!
Worked like a charm, thank you!
It helped a lot, made my work easy, Thank you so much 🙏
Glad to hear that
I need help: Based on a series of dates - I'm looking to highlight a single row based on the closest future date to the dates on my spreadsheet. However, it keeps highlighting ALL the future dates and I just need to know the closest ONE. How can I change it from highlighting ALL future/upcoming dates to just THE one upcoming date? Thank you in advance
Excellent demonstration. Thank you.
My pleasure.
Good video, very easy to follow
Thank you. This video was really helpful :)
Exactly what I needed thank you!!
Hello, Thank you for the great and well-demonstrated video. I still have some problems with conditional formatting. There is the table of everyday sales within a month and I need to show in seperate figure how much they are selling daily using Today function. For example, today they sell $100 and it should be shown in that figure automatically. I would appreciate if you can help in figuring that out.
wow google sheets is so glitchy thank god for your video
What if the line containing text is more complicated, and the formula should color if the cell contains the text, but is not equal exactly to the text?
for some reason, this doesn't work on mine everytime I add the "" .. It's okay with numbers cause I dont' need to put the "", but I'm making another condition for an exact text,
Thanks so much, this was extremely helpful! Any tips on how to do this for a date range (say between 1/1/2022 and 1/31/2022? I'm trying to highlight areas of my yearly expense tracker by month). Thanks in advance!
Thanks a ton. I tried the same dataset with Sweden and with same range it is not working. It is highlighting the starting range by default.
Great video! You are a wonderful teacher!
Thank you so much!
Well explained!!
Simple and useful! thanks very much!
Glad it helped!
@Joshua Coleman good job explaining conditional formatting with ease. I've got a question. If I have a database with columns A: Index, B: name of an animal, C: animal type where column C contains text values f.e. "white cat", "black cat", "grey cat", "blue cat", "purple lion" (so not only cats are on the list) etc. and I want to colour rows with cats except for the "blue cat" and I want to use only one Custom formula instead of 1) "=SEARCH("black cat";$C2)"; 2) =SEARCH("white cat";$D2) ... Any solution?
Nice explanation Thanks
It anyway you can highlight the road you are on as you hover over it so that I can see an example that I'm on row 45
very helpful, thank you so much!
Thank you for this!
My pleasure!
Hm, I know most of this already but what I can't figure out is how to make a custom formula with as condition "contains a certain text" - I can use the default "contains" option but this will not highlight a row. What I want is if a certain word occurs in column A, then the row in which it occurs gets highlighted. But the the cells contain multiple different words and numbers as text.
Great! You save my day!
Glad I could help!
@@ProlificOaktree thank you, best wishes
Thank You
I have a list that has values gotten from another neighbouring sheet , what i would like to do is to create a list only on those that have a value greater than cero, but i only want to show those that have a value in that list , i have like 20 diferent rows and i what happens to me now is that i show them all even when their adquired value from the othersheets is 0 , i would rather only make a list for those 20 items on those that have a value greater than cero , is that possible ?
Instead of using a fixed date, could you change it to "today"? so say anything after today is greyed out?
very useful, thank you!
Great workaround. Question: I'm working with Color Scale in conditional formatting and it works for percentages from 100 to 0 BUT if all the values are 0% it gives them the high value color AND this at first glance can be perceived as 100% NOT 0%. So I have a sorted column for DRAFT documents that ALL have an initial value of zero that are now being colored as 100%. Any work around for this?
I wanted to have the cell change colour every day. Fir example today blue, tomorrow green and next day different colour and so. Without having a date put in any column. Is this doable?
Great video and format; very helpful! But what if the condition is simply any text or number is entered into the reference cell? For example, if a date is entered into H1 the row turns green. (any date, any format, or simply any text)?
Okay, just figured it out lol. I used =$N1>0 ... ">0"!!!! That's it. haha
Hey there. I’d use a combination of ISBLANK and NOT…maybe =NOT(ISBLANK(A1))
Can you tell me how can i use conditional formatting for text length
E.g. if we put mobile number into the cell more than or less than 10 digit than the cell color should be change
Pls help
How we can highlight new entry automatic on whole sheet(Mean where ever i want to entry any data that should highlight please guide me
Thanks(without select any specific word)
Nice video. Thank you sir
Thank you, it's helpful
This was helpful, though it doesn't solve for if data validation is there on a column that we want to apply condition on.
Use the same logic but fix the row instead of the column.
Very good!
How can I do this with an Apps Script macro? I will be moving rows to another sheet and I don't want to bring any conditional formatting
Is there a conditional formatting formula for date/time if time is between certain hours? For example - If time is between 8AM and 5PM highlight cell green.
I would start with this video: ruclips.net/video/9fZptwgkpU8/видео.html
For some reason, this just doesn't work for me. It will just highlight a random row in the range that'll change color even if that specific row doesn't contain what the formula makes true. I can't get it to work at all unless I individual modify every cell I want to change.
Are you able to help. I would like to create a study tracker that will highlight the topics in one row red that were last learned (date in another column) 2, 4 then 6 days ago.. is this even possible? Do I need to put learning dates in different columns (I would Like to keep track of how often I study the topic) or should I just update the one row with the last date I studied?
It doesn’t work with the new sheet right now. The same exact code but the rectangle is red showing invalid code
What formula should I use, If I want to highlight a row and want to find the text that has India in it?
Thank you!!
How do I copy this conditional formatting (highlight a row based on a cell value "India") onto the same sheet?
What if you want to use the color scale? For example, if you want each row to be more green depending on how much revenue there is.
There are two tabs near the top of the conditional formatting menu. Choose the one on the right for the color scale options.
How do I get it to search in a cell for a word that has other words? Example: in cell D2 I would have WWW CANCELED. I have to backspace over the WWW and replace it with Canceled now
Sir, please help me, how i can highlight an entire row with 2 diff sheets with specific words
instead of highlight, are we able to add a conditional formula for math? For example if cell A="name" then it will add up all the cells that meet the condition. Is this possible?
Yeah, you need to start the formula with =IF( and go from there.
You're videos are great, thank you! Question: I use a large spreadsheet everyday with a wide spread of information on it. One of the columns includes dates that are our deadline. Is there a formula I can put in that at one month out, the box will turn red? (3 months from deadline it will turn orange, 6 months out, yellow) So as I get closed to the deadline, I notice the color change. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Yeah, start by using the TODAY function and adding 30 to it.
@@ProlificOaktree That would be 30 days from today though wouldn't it? I need the color to change 60 (Yellow), 45 (orange), & 30 (red) days out from specified deadline, showing we're getting closer to our deadline.
Thank you again!
Thank you.
You're welcome!
I thought this video was very helpful but for some reason my spreadsheet is not correctly coloring the rows even if I do it exactly as you said. Not sure what I am doing wrong
Nice videos. Watch a lot of your videos. Is there a way for e.g. if I need to highlight multiple countries based on text match for instance highlight cell C for countries matching Indonesia, India, Chile, Belarus and Sweden. Formatting purely based on multiple Text matches? Thanks a lot.
Thanks, I'm glad to hear that you like my videos! I plan to make a lot more just like these ones. As far as what you're asking about, you're probably best off to use the IFS function. It's built to have multiple conditions. You might have to combine it with the OR function.
THANK YOU SIR.
Most welcome!
Thanks for a great video. I learnt a great deal watching it!
However, I'm still trying to figure out how to use conditional formatting for my problem:
I have a bunch of different dates in column B - these are for when something should be reviewed.
If the cell next to that date, in column C, is empty after the specific date in column B, I want that cell to turn red
Any advice on how to do this?
Thanks!
Look into the =ISBLANK function.
@@ProlificOaktree Thanks! I'll look into it and see what it can do.
thank you so much!
Is there a way for Google Sheets to highlight the entire row where a cell is selected or mouseover?
awesome video, I'm working with a sheet that I want to count every row in increment if condition is met, for example if column A="Name" then counts it, and add the count in the previous column, same rown, if it founds the same "Name" add the number and the counter should say #2, and so on.... I cannot figure it out
I am trying to figure out the same thing!! please help
Try out the COUNTIFS function. It should do what you need.
I'm trying to figure out how to do this with a non exact match, I want to color lines based off if the notes contain "DNC", but this method seems to only work if the only thing in the cell is "DNC"
This deals with the concept of partial matches. Count Cells That DON'T Contain Certain Text - Google Sheets
ruclips.net/video/HCSalEK3TwI/видео.html
I am trying to highlight rows in which the date in a specific column is before today. Other columns also have dates, but only this particular column matters. Can you help?
Look in some of the preset options. It might be there or build a rule with something like
I have a spreadsheet with about 2000 words. Then I have a list of about the same amount of words...I need to check my list of words against the spreadsheet and if the word from the list is on the spreadsheet I need it to fill to a specific color...can you help me please?
Maybe this video would help: ruclips.net/video/QBuME5VrrhM/видео.html or this ruclips.net/video/CvySUgYSrbA/видео.html
Hi, How can you do it for "in between 1-100"? thanks.
Anybody know how to make this work with checkboxes? Im tryin to have the checkboxes export as a value "DONE" and have the conditional formatting check for that, but it's just not highlighting the row??
Take a look here: ruclips.net/video/cOOrdL_JuF0/видео.html
How can I highlight rows every time a number value changes? I’d like to set two alternating colors so it’s easier to view?
I don't know of a way to do that with the built in functions.
Why does mine say invalid when I put " " on formula?
Is there any way you can copy the conditional formatting to all the workbooks?
I don't think so.
how about if you have 500 rows? is it possible for the cursor to toggle in to highlighted one
No, not with this technique.
SO what if i want to highlight a row or column by "TODAY" ???
I have =$A=MAX(A1:A5) doen't work. May I know how to work around it without helper cell? Thanks!
You should only have one = in a formula.