Conditonal Format based on multiple criteria

How do you format a cell if the data in the cell contains 1 of several buyers
out of a greater list of buyers.

One column in my spreadsheet contains the buyer for that row. I would like
to format that cell if certain buyers are entered.

eg.
Buyer - column heading
a
b
a
d
c
d

I would like to format the cell that contain a and d. I tried to use "Or"
function. such as OR(C53="a", C53="d") but it did not work.


I have excel 2007.

Thanks

It should work, if you have done it correct.

Did you remember to put an equal sign before your function ?

Suppose you have buyers in C2:C100, select the range and goto conditional
formatting, and insert this formula:

=OR(C2="a", C2="d")

Select the desired format.

Hopes this helps.
....
Per

"Huggy" skrev i meddelelsen
...
How do you format a cell if the data in the cell contains 1 of several
buyers
out of a greater list of buyers.

One column in my spreadsheet contains the buyer for that row. I would like
to format that cell if certain buyers are entered.

eg.
Buyer - column heading
a
b
a
d
c
d

I would like to format the cell that contain a and d. I tried to use "Or"
function. such as OR(C53="a", C53="d") but it did not work.


I have excel 2007.

Thanks

Thanks, I think it didn't work before because I did not refer to the first
row in the data. It works now.

Thanks for the confirmation.


"Per Jessen" wrote:

It should work, if you have done it correct.

Did you remember to put an equal sign before your function ?

Suppose you have buyers in C2:C100, select the range and goto conditional
formatting, and insert this formula:

=OR(C2="a", C2="d")

Select the desired format.

Hopes this helps.
....
Per

"Huggy" skrev i meddelelsen
...
How do you format a cell if the data in the cell contains 1 of several
buyers
out of a greater list of buyers.

One column in my spreadsheet contains the buyer for that row. I would like
to format that cell if certain buyers are entered.

eg.
Buyer - column heading
a
b
a
d
c
d

I would like to format the cell that contain a and d. I tried to use "Or"
function. such as OR(C53="a", C53="d") but it did not work.


I have excel 2007.

Thanks

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