Question

Excel has a Conditional Formatting… option under the Format menu that allows you to change the style/color/font/whatever of a cell depending upon its value. But it only allows three conditions.

How do I get Excel to display say, six different background cell colors depending upon the value of the cell? (IE Make the cell red if the value is ‘Red’, and blue if ‘Blue’ etc.)

Answer 1

You will need to write something in VBA.

See example here: Get Around Excels 3 Criteria Limit in Conditional Formatting:

Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)  Dim icolor As Integer      If Not Intersect(Target, Range('A1:A10')) is Nothing Then          Select Case Target              Case 1 To 5                 icolor = 6             Case 6 To 10                 icolor = 12             Case 11 To 15                 icolor = 7             Case 16 To 20                 icolor = 53             Case 21 To 25                 icolor = 15             Case 26 To 30                 icolor = 42             Case Else                 'Whatever         End Select          Target.Interior.ColorIndex = icolor     End If End Sub