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June 11, 2013 at 11:30 AM
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Excel Conditional Formatting: Error when symbols in number cells?

by seekinganswers99 . Updated 13 years ago

Hi Tech Republic,
I would like to make red the cells that satisfy two rules, where Column A >3.5 AND Column B > 75.
Using the formula =AND(A1>3,B1>75) in CONDITIONAL FORMATTING works for all my cells that are just numbers.
However any cell that has a symbol (“less than” or “greather than”) is also turned RED even though …..<0.1, .....<1, .....<3 are not greater than 3.5. Can you help correct this issue? Thanks Column A Column B Limit Limit 3.5 75 2 50 3 50 4 50 2 100 3 100 4 100 Red 5 100 Red .....< 0.1 100 Red but shouldn't be .....< 1 100 Red but shouldn't be .....< 3 100 Red but shouldn't be PS. for some reason the formatting and < symbols disappear when uploaded to your page? the "....." are designated as the "less than" symbol!

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