how do i put color in a cell based on data in a second cell

[Diogie]

Cell A1 has 8 digit number manually entered each day.
Cell B1 has a single letter manually entered each day (same time as A1 entry).
The background color of cell A1 will be determined by the single letter in B1.
I've looked at conditional formatting, but haven't had much luck. I'm
running excel 2003.

Can anyone help?

 

[Darrilyn]

Conditional formatting should work. Tell me what you put in the
conditionally formating boxes.

 

[Tevuna]

1. Select A1
2. Format |Conditional | Formula is
3. Paste this: =$B$1="A"
4. Format
5. Add >>
6. Repeat steps 3 to 4
7. You can't specifiy a fourth condition, but you could unconditionally
format A1 as the fourth

 

[Gord Dibben]

If you need more than 4 conditions you could use event code to color the cell
with many more conditions. If interested, post back.

Or use Bob Phillips' 30-condition CFPlus add-in.

http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.CFPlus.Download.html


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

 

[Diogie]

cell is equal to d then format font bold (or background color pink, etc).
There are a total of 7 letters to be used in B1 calling for either bold font
or different color backgrounds in A1.

 

[Diogie]

I have a total of 7 letters to be used in B1 which I need to determine the
background or cause the font to be bold in A1.