Fill background color automatically by typing a letter in a cell

[Myke]

I know this is do-able, as I've seen it before. I just don't know how to do
it. What I'm trying to do is create an excel spreadsheet for vacations here
at work, where the cells will automatically fill in with a pre-determined
fill/background color when the text letter "V" (for vacation day) is entered
in the cell. It would also be neat to know if another letter, say "S" (for
planned sick/doctors appointment) would work the same way and the cell change
a different color when an employee entered "S".

All I'm trying to do is to highlight the background fill color of cells
automatically when a specific letter is typed into a cell. Thanks very much
in advance for any help you can give here.

 

[David Biddulph]

Look up "conditional formatting" in Excel help.

 

[Cimjet]

Hi Myke
Go to Format>Conditional Formatting>Condition 1 > Cell Value is > Open
second window and select " equal to " third window type in ="v" then press

Format and Tab> Patern and select colour .

Press button Add>> a second Condition will appear, do the same but in the
third window type ="s" and >Format with a different colour.
Regards
Cimjet

 

[Myke]

PERFECT! Thank you very much. Hope I can return the favor to someone here on
something....works great!

 

[Gord Dibben]

Depends upon how many letters you are speaking about.

3 or less would allow you to use Conditional Formatting.

More would require VBA or Excel 2007


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP