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Icon sets with conditional formatting

Anonymous
2016-08-15T15:30:54+00:00

In my Excel ss, cells A2 to  A100 contain either a Y, N or nothing. I want to use an icon set (red, yellow, or green light) so that when the cell contains a Y, the green light is displayed, when it contains N, a red light is displayed and a yellow light is displayed if the cell is blank. Most of the examples I have found are for numeric values and are not very expalnatory.

How can I do this?

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-08-15T17:10:30+00:00

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-08-15T18:32:16+00:00

    No, they aren't numbers, but you do assign numeric values to a predefined set of text strings. If you follow the instructions at that page, everything will work out for you.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-08-15T18:12:27+00:00

    So, it looks to me like the values in the cells being formatted have to be numeric values, 1,0,-1 to be specific

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