如果下拉列表在另一个单元格中更改，如何在表格中更改文本颜色

Question

I have an Excel spreadsheet which I need help with. Characteristics:

• I have a drop down menu in column C.
• I have a dates from column F to J (5 days).
• I have 15 rows (names) from row 8 to 22.
• F to J is to determine staff productive for a day/week.

I need F8 to J22, to change text colour to green when 15 or above is entered. If below 15 I need the text to be orange depending on what is selected in the drop down menu in C.

So If I have item "STU ENT" selected in C, I need text in F8 to J22 to be green when 15 or above is entered. If below I need orange.

If "STU EXP" is selected in C, I need text in F8 to J22 to be green when above 8, orange when below.

I can get it to work with conditional formatting but only when 15 is entered for all drop down menu items, but I need this to be different for each selection in the drop down list...

Help would be so great and save me so much time.

Thanks in advance.

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I've tried formulas in conditional formatting, but can't get it to meet my what i need.

I have looked at VBA coding, but don't want to run macros.

Answer 1

You should be able to do that with Conditional formatting.

Create a new cell with the formula (for example M1):

=IF(C1="STU ENT",15,8)

I understand there are only 2 options for Column C ("STU ENT" and "STU EXP") and that the value is only in 1 cell that changes from one another.

Then do the conditional formatting referring to M1 cell instead of a value.