Conditional formatting - multiple criteria

[Sah213]

Hi there,

I was looking for some help. If anyone is willing to point my in the right direction, I'd be incredibly grateful. I'm currently trying to use conditional formatting to colour cells in column F, one of two different colours using the "Use a formula to determine which cells to format" option.


However I’m having trouble with the syntax of the argument because I’m not very good at IF, AND & OR statements.
The real life situation is that if an employee is receiving a nominal increase to their salary (noted in column D) & is based in london (noted in column C), a 5% increase can be applied (calculated in column F) before the cell becomes “red”, i.e. dictates to the end user that this is not within the acceptable boundaries.
However if the employee is NOT based in london, only a 3% increase can be applied before the cell becomes “red”.
If the % increase is “acceptable”, i.e. within the boundaries as per their location, then the cell in column F should be coloured green.

A simplified version is below;


If contents of cell D2 = “Promotion”, do nothing

BUT

(If contents of cell D2 = “Nominal Increase”,

AND
If contents of cell C2 = "London" AND number in cell F2 is ABOVE 5.01- colour cell F2 – red.
OR
If contents of cell C2 = "London" AND number in cell F2 is BELOW 5.01- colour cell F2 - green

ALSO


If contents of cell C2 <> "London" AND number in cell F2 is BELOW 3.01- colour cell F2 - green
OR

If contents of cell C2 <> "London" AND number in cell F2 is ABOVE 3.01- colour cell F2 - red




Table below in case that helps! Thank you!

Name	Current Total Cash	Location	Increase Type	Increase	Increase %	New Total Cash FYI
Joe Bloggs	£40,000	London	Promotion	£3,000	7.50	£43,000
Fake Name	£38,000	Southampton	Nominal Increase	£2,000	5.26	£40,000
Tim Splash	£21,000	London	Nominal Increase	£250	1.19	£21,250
Robert Porridge	£28,500	London	Nominal Increase	£700	2.46	£29,200
James Kellogs	£23,600	Southampton	Promotion	£0	0.00	£23,600
Lilly Allen	£56,000	Glasgow	Nominal Increase	£400	0.71	£56,400
Sophie Harper	£78,000	Edinburgh	Promotion	£7,000	8.97	£85,000

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[AhoyNC]

See if this works for you.
You will need to set up up 2 rules in conditional formatting. One for red & one for green.

Go to
-Conditional Formatting
-New Rule
-Use formula

Excel Workbook
	A	B	C	D	E	F	G
1	Name	Current Total Cash	Location	Increase Type	Increase	Increase %	New Total Cash FYI
2	Joe Bloggs	40,000	London	Promotion	3,000	7.5	43,000
3	Fake Name	38,000	Southampton	Nominal Increase	2,000	5.26	40,000
4	Tim Splash	21,000	London	Nominal Increase	250	1.19	21,250
5	Robert Porridge	28,500	London	Nominal Increase	700	2.46	29,200
6	James Kellogs	23,600	Southampton	Promotion	0	0	23,600
7	Lilly Allen	56,000	Glasgow	Nominal Increase	400	0.71	56,400
8	Sophie Harper	78,000	Edinburgh	Promotion	7,000	8.97	85,000
Sheet

Cells with Conditional Formatting
Cell	Condition		Cell Format	Stop If True
F2	1. / Formula is =IF(OR(AND(D2="Nominal Increase",C2="London",F2<5.01),AND(D2="Nominal Increase",C2<>"London",F2<3.01)),"TRUE")	Abc
F2	2. / Formula is =IF(OR(AND(D2="Nominal Increase",C2="London",F2>5.01),AND(D2="Nominal Increase",C2<>"London",F2>3.01)),"TRUE",)	Abc