Highlight all cells in a row, that contain value in first column

[emma_voodle]

Hi!
I'm having an issue that I can't seem to find an answer for.

I have an Excel sheet with IDs in column A, and I need a conditional format/formula that will highlight all cells along that row that contain the ID in column A.
Column A contains different IDs. For example: see the value in A2, I need for all cells that contain that value along row 2 to be highlighted.

Hope that makes sense!
Thanks in advance.
-Emma

 

[etaf]

use a formula

=ISNUMBER(FIND($A2,"*"&C2&"*"))

Book4
	A	B	C	D	E	F	G
1
2	a123		456-a123-bb			bbb123bbbba123hhh
3	124ab		12bbb 124abccc		aaa1234ab		aaa124ab
Sheet1

Cells with Conditional Formatting
Cell	Condition		Cell Format	Stop If True
B2:K4	Expression	=AND(ISNUMBER(FIND($A2,"*"&B2&"*")),B2<>"")	text	NO

Note: Images are difficult to see , and also requires that I input all the data myself, which means I may make an error, which is very time consuming, and from my point of view less likely to get a response, if a complicated spreadsheet. Plus we cannot see any of the formulas used.

Therefore -

A SMALL sample spreadsheet, around 10-20 rows, would help a lot here, with all sensitive data removed, and expected results mocked up and manually entered, with a few notes of explanation.

This will possibly enable a quicker and more accurate solution for you.

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You can also test to see if it works ok, in the "Test Here" forum.

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OR if you cannot get XL2BB to work, or have restrictions on your PC

then put the sample spreadsheet onto a share

I only tend to goto OneDrive, Dropbox or google docs , as I'm never certain of other random share sites and possible virus.
Please make sure you have a representative data sample and also that the data has been desensitised, remember this site is open to anyone with internet access to see - so any sensitive / personal data should be removed

Make sure you set any share or google to share to everyone