Conditional Highlighting

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Is it possible to highlight the entire row if 1 cell equals a specific value using the Conditional Formatting
feature built in?
 

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Hi,

Yes ...

You can have following formula : =$A1="MySpecificText"

Hope this will help
 
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Not sure where / how to applly this. In the conditional formatting I am hightlighing not adding text.
 
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What column has the values you want to check?
What range do you want to highlight?
What is the value?
 
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The colum is "B", three seperate values, CAM - HUSE - VDR.
The range of teh row vaires - higlighting the entier row wuould be great.
 
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Select the range of cells you want this to work on & use this formula
=OR($B2="CAM",$B2="VDR",$B2="HUSE")
Assumes that the first row selected above is row2
 
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You're welcome & thanks for the feedback
 
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