Conditional Formatting Rule: Highlight Row when Cell Value in X Column Begins With

Question

I'm trying to highlight rows in my spreadsheet where cell values in Column B start with qr.

I tried following ExcelJet's example "Highlight cells that begin with," but this method will ONLY highlight cells. It will also highlight other cells in other columns where cell's value (string) begins with qr.

I did come up with a small googled solution.

Created a rule within Conditional Formatting and used this.

=SEARCH("qr",CONCATENATE($A2, $B2, $C2, $D2,$E2,$F2,$G2))=1

The problem with this solution is it will concatenate the rows in which qr exists and highlight them. It will also do this to rows in which a cell's value other than in column B starts with qr.

May I get some help with this please?

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I wasn't able to produce a solution table for my question, but the solution would be the same table with ROW 2 AND ROW 5 highlighted only. The current rule I'm applying will highlight ROW 2,3, and 5 and concatenate their cells.

 |---|---------------------|------------------|---------------------|
 |   |          A          |         B        |         C           |    
 |---|---------------------|------------------|---------------------|
 | 1 |      Full Name      |     Username     |    Email Address    |
 |---|---------------------|------------------|---------------------|
 | 2 |        Mario        |    qrmrincon     | mrodrigez@yahoo.com | 
 |---|---------------------|------------------|---------------------|
 | 3 |        Sofia        |    sgrahama3     |  recio1@hotmail.com |         
 |---|---------------------|------------------|---------------------|
 | 4 |        Qrig         |     grecio1      |   recio1@msn.com    |   
 |---|---------------------|------------------|---------------------|
 | 5 |        Mora         |    qrmturner2    |   turner2@aol.com   |   
 |---|---------------------|------------------|---------------------|

Answer 1

For the Conditional Formatting formula, just use:

=LEFT($B2,2)="qr"

Then for the "Applies to" range, put:

=$A$2:$C$100

(Adjust that last row based on the data)

And just format as you wish (a Fill is likely what you want).