When working with conditional formats, you'll often discover times when you need to apply multiple conditions to a single cell. How you define a single condition is described in other ExcelTips, but Excel allows you to define many conditions that can all apply to the same cell or range of cells.
Begin by selecting the cells for which you want to define conditional formatting rules. Then, with the Home tab of the ribbon displayed, click Conditional Formatting in the Styles group. From the resulting list of options, select Manage Rules. Excel displays the Conditional Formatting Rules Manager. (See Figure 1.)
Figure 1. The Conditional Formatting Rules Manager.
The Conditional Formatting Rules Manager is nothing but a list of the rules which have been defined for the selected cells. Each rule is shown on a separate line, and you can work with the rules by clicking one of the available buttons:
Rules are always evaluated in the order in which they appear in the Conditional Formatting Rules Manager. You can modify the evaluation order by using the up and down arrow tools.
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2017-09-17 09:57:54
Tim
Your tips have been quite helpful. Thank you.
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