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Asked: 2026-05-26T00:05:08+00:00

I have a conditional format in Excel that is displaying the up/down arrows based

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I have a conditional format in Excel that is displaying the up/down arrows based on certain values. This works just fine. However, in my spreadsheet (which is largely controlled by VBA) the user has the ability to review data in a ‘grade’ display (L=1,M=3,H=5) rather than the 1/3/5 score. I have a custom function that can convert the L/M/H to a number, but I can’t figure out how to incorporate this into the conditional format. I can do it in a normal conditional format, but I want the up/down arrows icon set. I’d remove the conditional formatting and apply an icon to the cell with VBA but I don’t think that’s possible. Any help?

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    What I ended up doing was adding an additional cell to the right that used a UDF to convert the cell values to numbers. I then applied the conditional formatting to this new cell and set it to to display the icon only. By locking the icon cell and protecting the worksheet (was going to protect anyways) the field is never user editable which is exactly what I wanted.

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