Let's change a value to see what happens. Iva, Liam and Adora have 33 Pokeballs in total. Great job! You have successfully calculated the SUM using the SUM function. Remember to delete the values that you currently have in E5. Note: You can navigate to the cells with your keyboard arrows instead of right clicking them. You will learn more about functions in a later chapter. The SUMįunction is one of the most used ones. Let's see how many Pokeballs Iva, Liam and Adora have in total.Įxcel has many pre-made functions available for you to use. Now we have counted the Pokeballs for all three Iva( 6), Liam( 12) and Adora( 15). That is cool, right? The fill function continued the calculation that you used for Iva and was able to understand that you wanted to count the cells in the next rows as well. Lets use the fill function to continue the formula, step by step: Now, let's help Liam and Adora with counting theirs.ĭo you remember the fill function that we learned about earlier? It can be used to continue calculations sidewards, downwards and upwards. The values in row 2 B2(2), C2(3), D2(1) belong to her.ĭid you get the value E2(6)? Good job! You have helped Iva to count her Pokeballs. The result includes text that has been typed in and formulas that are returning text.Let's help Iva to count her Pokeballs. It is simply a case of again highlighting cells top-left to bottom-right cells B7:C22.Įdit the conditional formatting rule and change the formula to: If we go back to the table in our earlier example. This is another condition the CELL function with “type” can resolve. =CELL( “type”, $F$23)=”b” Conditionally Formatting if Cell Contains Text The formula in the conditional format would be: Then follow the steps to create a conditional format condition. It may be beneficial to use a cell at the top of a form to indicate if a cell that requires user input has been completed.įor example we may want to apply the conditional formatting to cell P1 to indicate that cell F23 is blank. Conditionally Formatting if Another Cell is Blank The change of ‘=’ to ‘’ is all that is needed. This one is easy based on the ‘conditionally formatting if cell is BLANK’ example above.Īll we need to do is replace our previous CELL function with: Lets move on to look at conditionally formatting for other attributes: Conditionally Formatting if Cell is Not Blank The function will return either “b” for blank, “l” for label (text) or “v” for everything else. This identifies the type of contents in the reference cell.
#EXCEL FORMATTING FORMULA SERIES#
INFO_TYPE is a series of attributes provided by Excel®. You can select INFO_TYPE from a list of available options when you start typing the formula.
The CELL function has two arguments: INFO_TYPE and REFERENCE. However it is worth understanding the CELL function as this can be useful for applying conditional formatting to highlight cells with other attributes. TRUE is only returned if there is no text, formula or constant in the cell. The ISBLANK function is a simple test that exists in Excel® to return TRUE or FALSE. In fact there are 2 alternatives we could use. If you don’t want to highlight cells like this then we need an alternative function. There could potentially be a formula in cell B9 above that is returning “”. The COUNTIF function will include all cells that appear to be blank. If you clear out some of the other cells in colulmn B you will see they also turn yellow as expected.
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