How do I color format dates in one column into another column

Liverlee

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Hi,

New to the forum

I'm here cos i'm stuck with a task.

I have a spreadsheet with a list of dates and non dates in column A

In column B I want to color highlight cells (so that they can be overwritten with other text)

I want to show in column B

1) dates from column A that are greater than 8 weeks
2) dates from column A that are between 6 and 8 week date
3) dates from column A that are less than and upto 6 weeks.

and finally colour highlight in column b all the non dates in column A. Some are blanks and some have some text (i.e) N/A, TBC.

I've tried

=A2:A10<TODAY()

Not sure if i can use today as part of the formula if the dates in column A are not today i.e 08/11/2018.

Please, please, please somebody help me.
 

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Excel Workbook
AB
1starting date1/09/2018
2
3No weeks
41/11/20188.71
5ma 
62/10/20184.43
710/10/20185.57
825/10/20187.71
Sheet1


Conditional formatting set as
Rule 1 Cell value is between 8 and 52
Rule 2 Cell value is between 7 and 8
Rule 3 Cell value is between 1 and 6
This was done on excel 2003 , rather than a colour if text or blank in column A it will be blank
 
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Thank you pedro

I got the dates wrong though

They are all supposed to be before dates!

for example

Six weeks before the date in column A = red cell in column b.
Six to Eight weeks before the date in column A = amber cell in column b
More than Eight weeks before the date in column A = green cell in column b


i've tried these forumla's in column b
[TABLE="width: 522"]
<colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody>[TR]
[TD]AND(ISNUMBER(A4),DATEDIF(TODAY(),A4,"d")<42)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]AND(ISNUMBER(A4),DATEDIF(TODAY(),A4,"d")>=42,DATEDIF(TODAY(),A4,"d<=56)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]AND(ISNUMBER(A4),DATEDIF(TODAY(),A4,"d")>56)

but not quite getting it right


[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
 
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This might give you further thought
Excel Workbook
AB
1today11/11/2018
2
3No days passed
41/11/201810
5ma 
611/09/201861
710/10/201832
828/09/201844
9ma 
1010/10/201832
111/09/201871
1229/09/201843
test


Conditional formatting
Rule 1 Cell value is between 57 and 365 colour Green
Rule 2 Cell value is between 43 and 56 Colour Pink
Rule 3 Cell value is between 1 and 42 Colour Red
 
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