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Asked: 2026-05-27T02:15:24+00:00

I’d like to color cells according to their value (cf conditional formatting – color

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I’d like to color cells according to their value (cf conditional formatting – color scales) in the style menu of Excel 2007 to newer.

It works fine and the effect is wonderful when you have a wide range of data with fairly distributed values.

However, the column I am formatting conditionally is the result of some computation. Sometimes I get N/A values because one of my input is N/A, and sometimes I get the exception “division by zero” as my cells are the result of a division. In these scenarios, i don’t get any colors at all.

Is there a way to ignore these problematic cells that happen sometimes, leave them blank and process colours for the rest of them ?

Thank you guys ! 😉

A picture of when it works fine : column coloured with regard to values

Another picture showing a problematic cell cancelling the colouring : enter image description here

I’m looking for an Excel solution to the problem, which I can then record as macro to port to my C# application. But if someone has a nice workaround in C#, I’d be happy too (i.e. I use ToColourScalePercentile on the range, I was thinking to maybe remove problematic cells from the range somehow)

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  1. Editorial Team

    you could use IsError function to check if there is N/A and in case there is leave the cell empty, otherwise put the value there.

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