Excel Conditional Formatting - Highlight row with the next date from TODAY

Question

I have a number of dates throughout the year that have 3 weeks gaps between them. im looking to highlight the past dates in red and only the next date in amber.

Answer 1

Assuming your dates are in A1:A8 (adjust ranges as necessary), you could create two rules based on the following formulas:

1. Past dates (red): =AND(A1<TODAY(),A1<>"")
2. Next date (amber): =AND(A1<>"",A1>=TODAY(),COUNTIFS($A$1:$A$8,"<"&A1,$A$1:$A$8,">="&TODAY())=0)

The A1<>"" is included to ignore blank cells.

Answer 2

Here is a different solution, that I believe is very straight forward and doesn't require multiple statements.

Old Dates (if no "Next Day" dates are found, then nothing will change colors) = `=A1TODAY(),$A$1:$A$8))``

Old Dates (including Today) Formula (This code will change colors regardless)= $A1=AND($A1<=TODAY(),$A1<>"") - Similar to BigBen (Difference is that I include Today() ).

Next day Formula = =A1=MIN(IF($A$1:$A$8>TODAY(),$A$1:$A$8))

Everyday after today (just in case)= =A1>=MIN(IF($A$1:$A$8>TODAY(),$A$1:$A$8))

Note that if you decide to use these formula's within cells you must use "Ctrl + Shift + Enter" as this is an array formula.