Question

I want to highlight excel sheet cell (Column ‘A’) of when it does not contain the text like “Verify”, “Validate” or “Evaluate” in its content if, the value in corresponding cell of Column ‘B’ holds the value ‘Y’.

When the column ‘A’ can’t contains the words like ‘Verify’, ‘Validate’ and ‘Evaluate’ if the corresponding cell in Column ‘B’ holds value ‘N’. So just need to highlight those discrepancies if its there.

Column ‘A’: Press Enter and verify this and this…

Column ‘B’: Y

Answer 1

This is quick example. However, the second formula can be shorted in case that column B cannot be blank. See if this fits …

EDIT:

Here is VBA example as requested. You will need to save the code into current sheet (example: Sheet1 )…

Option Explicit

Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
    Dim str As String
    Dim lCol As Long
    Dim oCell As Object
    Dim oCellFormat As Object
    lCol = Target.Column

    If lCol = 1 Or lCol = 2 Then
       Set oCell = Cells(Target.Row, 1)
    Else
        GoTo mExit
    End If
    str = UCase(oCell.Value)
    Set oCellFormat = Cells(oCell.Row, 1)
    If (str = "VERIFY" Or str = "VALIDATE" Or str = "EVALUATE") Then
        If UCase(Cells(oCell.Row, 2).Value) = "N" Then
            oCellFormat.Interior.ColorIndex = 3 'red
        ElseIf UCase(Cells(oCell.Row, 2).Value) = "Y" Then
            oCellFormat.Interior.ColorIndex = 4 'green
        Else
            oCellFormat.Interior.ColorIndex = 2 'white
        End If
    Else
        oCellFormat.Interior.ColorIndex = 2 'white
    End If
    GoTo mExit
    Exit Sub
mExit:
    Set oCell = Nothing 'free resources
    Set oCellFormat = Nothing
End Sub