Conditional Formatting on Three Dashes / Hyphens

[RBusiness]

Hello,

I'm trying to conditional format three dashes / hyphens "- - -" that are the result of formulas.
I can't seem to get a conditional format to work on this.

Does anyone have any ideas?

RB

 

[Joe4]

Works fine for me with a CF formula like:

=A1="- - -"

What exactly does the formula that is returning this value look like?
Is it the formula that explicitly returns the "- - -", or do you have some Custom Formatting on the result going on?

 

[RBusiness]

The formula is

=SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(CONCAT(AW230428," (",AF230428-AW230428,") ",AF230428),"101","-"),"(0)","-")

The output is "- - -" (When other data is not available).

 

[RBusiness]

The range is =$H$22:$Y$230429

 

[Joe4]

If you check the length of one of these instances where the dashes are returned, what does it return?
i.e.

=LEN(H22)

 

[RBusiness]

5

 

[Joe4]

Note if it is 3, then there are no spaces, and your CF formula should just look something like:

=H22="---"

 

[RBusiness]

There are spaces, and I tried the following but it does not work

[COLOR=#333333]=H22="- - -"[/COLOR]

 

[Joe4]

Type the formula into any blank cell:

=H22="- - -"

If it returns FALSE, then the value in cell H22 does NOT exactly match "- - -". Something is different.
If it returns TRUE, then it does equal that, and you are probably not applying the Conditional Formatting correctly.

Note: I see that you are doing some Substitution on some data. Where exactly is this data coming from?
If it comes from the Web or another application, you may have some spaces that aren't normal spaces, but rather special characters (which would be causing the issues).

 

[RBusiness]

Cancel that: It's working.

Thank you for your help Joe4 - It's truly appreciated.