Help highlighting rows based on cell contents

Pharmacisticus

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Hi All,

I'm using Excel 2016 and need some help highlighting.
I've added a link to a picture of the worksheet I'm working on.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=121zcWYWY9W_6wqLiTiJaQCNdnAT2Jl2s

I want to highlight all rows that have the word "Complete" in column J
I've tried using conditional formatting but I can't get it to work, unfortunately, "complete" is a common word throughout the document so I keep getting rows highlighted that I don't want.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Cheers,

Josh
 

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Select from cell A23 to the bottom right of your data and then apply the Conditional Formatting (formula) shown. Note the $ in front of the J.

Excel Workbook
ABCDEFGHIJKL
22
23Complete
24Doesn't matter if Complete appears in this columnAction
25
26Action
27Complete
28
CF complete
Cells with Conditional Formatting
CellConditionCell FormatStop If True
A231. / Formula is =$J23="Complete"Abc
 
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