Highlight a date range if it contains today's date

Question

I have start dates in column N, and end dates in column O - is there any way I can highlight them if the range contains the current date?

eg if today's date in 08/05/2019, the start date is 06/05/2019 in N, and end date is 12/05/2019 in O it should highlight.

Answer 1

Do as follow:

Sample data:

Select column N:O and add new conditional formatting rule, use a formula:

=AND(TODAY()>=$O1,TODAY()<=$P1)

Choose your fill and click OK.