Using Built-in conditional formatting Styles. If you want to try some more conditional formatting options, then Excel as some built-in styles to use for this purpose, like Data Bars, Color Scales, and Icons Sets. Jump to Colour Cells Based on 2 Conditions - Use Excel conditional formatting to colour cells if 2 condidtions are met. In this example, a country code is. If the quantity in stock of an item reaches below 100 it’s critical that you find out, so you can buy more units of that particular item. If you’re unaware of conditional formatting, you might place the tip of your finger on your screen and start moving it downwards to see if there are any numbers in that column that is below 100. This is not a very effective method in a dataset with 50+ rows (and the risk of human error is high). Instead, let conditional formatting do the job! After this tip, the only thing you need to do is click a few times with your mouse. You can even follow along as we go with this sample file, which I strongly recommend you do. In the left box, you enter the value that the cell content must be in order to “trigger” the conditional formatting. So if you enter 100, something will happen when the value is less than 100. What that “something” is we’ll define in the box to the right. As you see the standard option is “Light Red Fill with Dark Red Text”. If you just click OK now, all the quantities that are below 100 will be formatted this way. If you want to change that (and you probably will) click the arrow next to the right box and select one of the other presets. In tip 1 you learned how to highlight values in your sheet that are below 100. You can use the same method to pinpoint exactly where a certain string of text is. So if we’re looking for all the M compatible adapters (in the sample file) then we don’t have to use our eyes (very much). Instead, we can let conditional formatting do all the hard work and identify the results easily ourselves. Select some data with text. In the sample file, we’ll select the range from B4 to B26. So basically all our “Item” names. Then click the ‘Conditional Formatting’ button on the ‘Home’ tab, hover your mouse over ‘Hightlight Cells Rules’ and click ‘Text that Contains’. Below we’ll go through the different options shown in above screenshot. • Here you can change the ‘ Rule Type’. If you don’t want the conditional formatting to apply when “something” happens in a cell, you can change it to apply on all cells and filling them with color based on their value compared to the average of the data. You can also make the rule more advanced by basing it on a formula. • If you keep the ‘Rule Type’ you can change the “ trigger” of the formatting. Here you edit your rule so it no longer “triggers” on a cell containing specific text, by choosing “Blanks” or “Cell Value”. How to Read a Vernier (caliper): Looking at an early caliper, you'll notice that it kinda looks like a tomahawk and has a scale down it's length. The first number to the right of the decimal point is a tenth of an inch (1/10), the second number signifies a hundreth of an inch (1/100), and the third number signifies a thousanth of an inch (1. A Vernier caliper is an instrument that measures internal or external dimensions and distances. It allows you to take more precise measurements than you could with regular rulers. The scales may be graduated in inch or metric units, or in both inch and metric units. For most vernier calipers, the vernier scale provides precision measurements to thousandths of an inch or hundredths of a millimeter. Vernier calipers have internal and external jaws plus a depth rod for taking measurements. Inch vernier caliper. Reading an inch based vernier scale by using the four step addition method explained here is a relatively easy process. Basic Vernier Movement The illustration above shows a basic vernier movement as used on vernier calipers and other measuring and positioning tools. This means that the formatting applies when a cell is empty or, for example, holds a value greater than, or less than, 100. • If you keep the ‘Specific text’ you can decide here whether the cell should contain, not contain, begin with or end with the text that you enter in the field to the right. • Here you enter your new text. • From this little (familiar) box you can change the formatting that you applied in the first place. If you don’t want your cells to turn green when it includes the text “L compatible” (or something else), you can have it turn yellow instead. As you see there’re enough options, but wait – there’s more! All of the above is very nice, but if you accidentally selected the wrong area when you made the conditional formatting rule – then it doesn’t help to change the ‘Rule Type’ or whether the cells should be red or blue. And if you spent 5 minutes entering a unique formula to “trigger” the formatting, then it sucks to delete it and do it all over. To change the range of cells that the conditional formatting rules applies to, you don’t need to go to the ‘Edit Formatting Rule’ box above.
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