Excel: Conditional formatting more (text) instances inside column or whole row

Question

I have one workbook with more sheets (queries) inside, which are updated regularly. Among the columns there is a specific one (for groups) where there are many instances in Column D (Vargrouptext) as it is shown on the picture. You can see it is repetitive, and it has many of those options. Is there a quicker way to somehow "group" them by color or format them, but not that I go manually one per one, to select column and then manually to do? Is there a way to apply that conditional format on a whole row??

for example:

CPS101  CSP MODEL

CPS102 CSP MODEL

CPS103 CSP MODEL 

To have whole row (Column A to D) formatted into some color, but to apply that on all instances from Vargrouptex with different color per instance?

For example I can apply this format painter or copy cond.format to make a bit quicker but I still have to click X times.

Answer 1

Try:

• Select the whole range - A1:D88
• Conditional Formatting
• Mange Rules
• Use a formula to determine which cells to format
• Formula: $D1=CSP Model"
• Format - Fill - Select the color you want
• OK
• OK
• Apply

Repeat for every group

Results: