An “IF” Excel formula that meets criteria of above and below cells

Question

I'm designing a poker training spreadsheet and I've been trying to work out a formula that highlights each row as you progress through the questions with a "-->" arrow.

Here is a screenshot:

My goal is to insert a "-->" on a row where the previous question has been answered (either "yes" or "no"), but also to instead insert "" if another question in the column is currently highlighted with a "-->" - this way it should smoothly run continuously and no two rows should be highlighted at one time.

The first question was simple enough: I used

=IF(AND(N2="", G3<>"-->"), "-->", "")

I tried to use the following formula on the remaining rows but it didn't work for some reason

=IF(AND(N2="Yes", (COUNTIF(G4:$G$49, "<>"%"-->")>0)), "-->", " ")

This was initially a test to get the functionality working if each answer was correct, which I would then change to 'if the answer is "yes" or "no".

Answer 1

If I got you correctly,

this should do the trick:

=IF(COUNTIF($M$2:$M$20,"<>"&"")+2=ROW(),"-->","")