quenstion about Conditional Formating

[artoo]

I have a worksheet that has a few conditional formatting rules applied to full columns(ie C1::C1048576) and have noticed when I'm copying cells or range of cells, new rules are added to the list of conditional rules so I end up with a bunch of duplicated rules.

Say there is a conditional rule for C1:C1048576 and I copy the cells A3445:F3545 to the new location A5000, when I look in the list of conditional rules I see there are now two identical rules one for the entire column and one for the new copied range. Is there a way to have Excel copy cells and not add a conditional rule to the new range when there is already a rule in place for the entire column?

 

[mole999]

not sure there is a way, I usually record the application of big CF and then run it in code, so the original is deleted and then reapplied, keeps it consistent

 

[Marcelo Branco]

Maybe this can help
https://excel.tips.net/T003012_Copying_a_Cell_without_Formatting.html

M.

 

[artoo]

I'll try that Marcelo. It gets confusing when looking through the rules and seeing the same one over and over again with just the range being the difference. When going thought them and deleting the ones I don't need, I end up deleting the one that applies to the full column rather then the duplicate range, and wonder why just portions of the column have the formatting I am expecting.