Check dates in spreadsheet against expiry years column and change colour

[OHSGoddess]

Hi All

I need some help I have a training spreadsheet that has a list of
trainees names across the top and down the side the course name and the
validity period. Within the spreadsheet I have the dates that the
person recieved their training. What I am wondering is can I get a
function to look up the validity period eg 2 yrs and check it against
the date and change the colour to red when it has expired, orange when
2 months away from expiry and green when current? Please help

Thanks

 

[daddylonglegs]

Perfectly feasible, you can do this with conditional formatting but it
probably helps if there is a consistency in the validity period, e.g. if you
have "2 yrs", "6 months" etc. this will be trickier to implement. Just a
figure in the validity column, indicating months, or years, in all cases
would make things easier.

What do you have currently in validity column?

 

[OHSGoddess]

In the validity column I have years ranging from 1-5 yrs at this stage
none of them are in months.

 

[OHSGoddess]

Thanks for your help have just had a play with it and figured out how
to do it myself. Seems I am smarter than I thought

 

[trasha]

Hi All

I need some help I have a training spreadsheet that has a list of
trainees names across the top and down the side the course name and the
validity period. Within the spreadsheet I have the dates that the
person recieved their training. What I am wondering is can I get a
function to look up the validity period eg 2 yrs and check it against
the date and change the colour to red when it has expired, orange when
2 months away from expiry and green when current? Please help

Thanks