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I want to write a formula to enter text (e.g., "BUY" or "SELL") in a cell based on values of adjacent cells (using Office 2010). I don't care what the color is. This should be easy but I can't find the answer. TIA Bill Roberts
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Hi,
Conditional formatting returns a fil colour, you can do semething along these lines
=IF(A1>=1000,"Sell","Buy")
I should have known better. Sorry about that.