如果单元格行包含“ z”，则有条件地格式化A列

Question

I want to highlight cells in column A (using the conditional formatting tool) if the cell's corresponding row contains the letter z anywhere within that row. I want to do this so I can sort data to the top if it is highlighted in column A.

I'm using the formula:

=COUNTIF($A1:$AA1,"*z*") 

But I don't want to highlight the entire row, just the corresponding cell in column A for that row.

What is the formula to do this?

Answer 1

Select ColumnA then HOME > Styles - Conditional Formatting, New Rule..., Use a formula to determine which cells to format and Format values where this formula is true: :

=COUNTIF($A1:$AA1,"*z*")>0

Format... , select highlighting OK, OK.

This will apply only to Column A (because of the selection).

Answer 2

This seemed to work for me when testing with a 3x3 cell table:

1. Highlight A1:A3
2. Conditional Formatting>New Rule>Use a formula to determine which cells to format

3. Formula:

   =COUNTIF($B1:$C1," z ")

Then only cells in A were highlighted.

Answer 3

"I want to do this so I can sort data to the top if it is highlighted in column A."

Ok, first of all, you don't need to use conditional formatting to sort. Second of all you wouldn't want to reference A1 in your formula =COUNTIF($A1:$AA1,"z") - it is a circular reference and any formula you put in column A would not return "z" anyways because you are using it for your COUNTIF formula.

The formula you want to use is:

=IF(COUNTIF($B1:$AA1,"z")>0,1,0)

If you want to look for any row that contains az anywhere in a string you would want to do a wildcard countif:

=IF(COUNTIF($B1:$AA1,"*z")>0,1,0)

Then you can just sort on column A for all your data - high to low.

Basically you have demonstrated a basic misunderstanding of how to sort in excel(no offense). This should help you. Good Luck.