More that 3 conditions for conditional formating?

[Jerry Kinder]

How do I set more that 3. I need 6 or 8.

I want to have color of cell change if one of the 6 or 8 words appears in
the cell.

Thanks,
Jerry

 

[Bob Umlas]

limit is 3. You can, however, check for the appearance of the word by some
formula like
=NOT(ISNA(MATCH(A1,F1:F8,0)))
where F1:F8 contains the list of 8 words and A1 is the active cell. If it's
not an error, the word exists, and you can make the cell be whatever color
you want. You just can't have 8 different colors.
Bob Umlas
Excel MVP

 

[Jezebel]

Use a second cell to evaluate all your conditions

=IF ( AND ( cond1, cond2, cond3, cond4, ....), TRUE)

Then base your conditional format on that cell.

 

[Jerry Kinder]

Hi,
Thanks I will give this a try. I also found a Macro the does it also, it
will just take some time to figure out how to manipulate it. I do not know
how to write macros so it is trial and error for me.

Thank,
Jerry