Complex Heat Map using conditional formatting

Corried

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Good day excel world.

I have a concern.
Below link have a list of countries that carries each country unique data.

Now let's take the 1st two example:
#1 Country: Albania Data: -13.60
Below is Albania historical values snapshot:
Albania.PNG

If you notice all there historical data are measure with a (-) number.


and

#2 Country: Argentina Data: 42.40
Below is Argentina Historical values snapshot:
Argentina.PNG

If you notice all there historical data are measure with a positive number.


My problem is this:
How can I use 3-Color Scale "Heat map", using conditional formatting, to show it correct color code for each country?

Below is the WRONG EXAMPLE of conditional formatting use directly.
heat (1).PNG


What do you suggest I do?
 

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Well, what end result do you want? On the website you linked, with the heat map... It looks like they highlight red / green based on whether the metric is a good or bad thing. For instance look at Turkey. It's got one column with 11.25% and it's green, and the very next column is also 11.84% but it's red. So if you want to achieve the same result, you'd have to tell Excel which columns are good and which are bad... it's going to be a little more work, you know? Is this what you want?
 
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Well, what end result do you want? On the website you linked, with the heat map... It looks like they highlight red / green based on whether the metric is a good or bad thing. For instance look at Turkey. It's got one column with 11.25% and it's green, and the very next column is also 11.84% but it's red. So if you want to achieve the same result, you'd have to tell Excel which columns are good and which are bad... it's going to be a little more work, you know? Is this what you want?
Yes Sir. Spider man and Batman are my superheroes. Just joking. This is what I'm looking for. How can I get around this?

Thanks in advance
 
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Now that I think about it, it might be easier if you just go column by column, adding different conditional formatting as you go. Rather than try to make it so dynamic. Since I'm assuming this just a one time thing, right?
 
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Just literally click on column A, and apply the conditional formatting either green to red, or red to green, depending on whether that's a "good" metric or "bad" metric. Then go to column B, do same thing. Keep going.
 
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