Automatic color for output of a =sum action

[AndyE]

I am building a chart that has something like =SUM(AK1:AK38) with the results
on AK39, I need to compare the results of AK39 to the number in AK40. 39 is
going to be my "Actual" and I need that compared to 40 which is my "Target".
I would also like for the number in 39 to be red if it is less than 40 and
green if it is =>. If it can't be done... I can keep going in and changing
the font color, but takes too much time.
Thanks, Andy

 

[Jon Peltier]

If it's a cell value, look into conditional formatting. Here are a couple
links:

http://www.contextures.com/xlCondFormat01.html
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/cformatting.htm

- Jon

 

[AndyE]

Thank you, that is what I needed. Wish I could have gotten it to do a line
comparison (if Row 10 is Less than row 11 change color to red, for the entire
sheet from D-CF, but the work is done untill next time.

~Andy

 

[Jon Peltier]

You didn't provide quite enough information, but it seems you should be able
to write a function to sort the values into color ranges.

- Jon