Conditional Formatting based on Cell Text

Question

I have the data in the columns ABCD in one sheet and a pivot based on that data on another. I want to conditional format my pivot table values based on the value of the Color column in my data sheet using VBA.

What is the Rule that I will need to create here? I recall we can use Name Manager for this purpose, but I am not sure how to?

Answer 1

Use a VLOOKUP and create 3 rules with the following formulas:

=VLOOKUP(G$2,$A:$D,4)="red"

=VLOOKUP(G$2,$A:$D,4)="yellow"

=VLOOKUP(G$2,$A:$D,4)="green"

And match each condition with the appropriate colour