Conditional formatting independently for multiple rows

Anonymous
2018-11-08T11:56:41+00:00

Hello,

I have already googled for the answer but cannot find exactly what I need.

I have an excel spreadsheet with 4 columns with different numbers in each cell.

There are about 450 rows to the table.

For each row, I would like to apply the 2-colour scale conditional format to show which values are highest and which are lowest (and which come in between).

I then want to apply this format to all other rows.

The issue I have had is I can only get it to format a colour scale for the spreadsheet as a whole, rather than independently colour scale for each row.

Does anyone have any suggestions how to independently colour scale each row?

Thanks in advance.

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  1. Lz._ 38,106 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2018-11-14T08:15:44+00:00

    Hi,

    You want the largest1, largest2... per Row. So, from your last picture formula must be:

    =C13=LARGE($C13:$F13,4)

    Same goes for the other rules

    =C13=LARGE($C13:$F13,3)

    =C13=LARGE($C13:$F13,2)

    =C13=LARGE($C13:$F13,1)

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-11-14T07:51:33+00:00

    I realised I hadn't included the $ sign in front of the formulas, but had taken them out completely.

    Having re-inserted them this is what I get now.  Still not quite right.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-11-14T09:34:10+00:00

    You're a star!  Thank you for the clarification, that works wonderful!

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  3. Lz._ 38,106 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2018-11-14T09:51:09+00:00

    You're a star!  Not at all. Always easy when you know

    Thank you for the clarification You're welcome

    that works wonderful! Good news. Glad we could help & Thanks for posting back

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