How do I get a cell to highlight when a deadline date approaching

[Frustratedfemale26]

I am trying to set up a spreadsheet that is at this present moment in time
getting the better of me. I know what I want it to do, but cant seem to get
it to do it.

What I want it to do is to highlight the cell red, amber or green to
indicate how close we are to our deadline date.

For example: I have three columns: Date In, Deadline Date and Todays Date.
What I want to happen is for the Deadline Date column to highlight
automatically each day as we count down to the Deadline Date. I dont really
want to have to be going in to the spreadsheet every day to manually change
the dates but I have no idea how to get it to update automatically. Any
suggestions?

 

[Jarek Kujawa]

in Excel 2003 select a cell in yr Deadline Date (say B1) column, go to
Format->Conditional formatting->change 'Cell Value Is' to 'Formula Is'
and insert the formula

=B1<=TODAY()

copy down

 

[Jacob Skaria]

For XL2003....


You dont need to enter todays date . Assuming your target date in B1 select
C1 and from menu Format-->Conditional formatting

Condition1 Formula =B1-TODAY()>=4 Select Green
Condition2 Formula =B1-TODAY()>=2 Select Amber
Condition3 Formula =B1-TODAY()>=0 Select Red

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