Conditional Formatting with 3 Criteria Options

[Nickle]

I would like a Cell's Text to turn green if A1=B1, but turn red if A1<>B1,
and no formatting if B1 is blank. What is the best way to go about this? I
have excel2007.

 

[Bob Umlas]

With that cell active, use Home/Conditional Formatting, use new Rule, use
Use a formula to determine which cells to format and enter this formula:
=AND(A1<>B1,B1<>"")
then click format/fill/red
then do another New Rule and use
=AND(A1=B1,B1<>"")
then click format/fill/green.

HTH
Bob Umlas
Excel MVP

 

[Nickle]

These two work fine, however my A1 cell turns Red when B1 is blank which I
was hoping to have no formatting for. Is there another equation that is
needed. Thank you for the help.

 

[David Biddulph]

It shouldn't go red if B1 is blank. Perhaps it is not blank. Perhaps
contains one or more spaces? What does =LEN(B1) show?

 

[Nickle]

=LEN(B1) Shows 1
I do have a cell reference to another spreadsheet. So the outcome on B1 is
dependent on what is selected from a cell on the Master sheet.

 

[David Biddulph]

So if LEN(B1) is 1,it is not blank, so it will satisfy the B1<>"" test, and
the red result is what you'd expect.

What is your formula in B1? Are you sure that you haven't asked it to
produce a space =" " rather than an empty string ="" ?
=CODE(B1) will be 32 if you've got a space in there.