Conditional formatting works great if you’re looking to highlight rows based on data or values already contained in the sheet (e.g. a red background colour can appear on rows when the “status” is “overdue”). Issues can arise when you want to apply the formatting based on a comparison between two cells in the sheet. For example, if you have a “target cost” column and an “actual cost” column, and want to apply a red background colour to rows that exceed the estimate. This can’t be done with conditional formatting rules alone.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why we recommend using conditional formatting’s greatest ally – formulas! Specifically, you will want to use an IF formula to perform the comparison between the two values, and then apply the formatting rule based on the result of the formula. <\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[205,206,98,161],"class_list":["post-3531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks","tag-conditional-formatting","tag-formulas","tag-smartsheet-tips","tag-smartsheet-tips-from-support"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","wp_review_small":"","wp_review_large":""},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"
Conditional formatting works great if you’re looking to highlight rows based on data or values already contained in the sheet (e.g. a red background colour can appear on rows when the “status” is “overdue”). Issues can arise when you want to apply the formatting based on a comparison between two cells in the sheet. For example, if you have a “target cost” column and an “actual cost” column, and want to apply a red background colour to rows that exceed the estimate. This can’t be done with conditional formatting rules alone.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why we recommend using conditional formatting’s greatest ally – formulas! Specifically, you will want to use an IF formula to perform the comparison between the two values, and then apply the formatting rule based on the result of the formula. <\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"Tips and Tricks - old<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"GwenR","url":"https:\/\/smarterbusinessprocesses.com\/author\/gwenr\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smarterbusinessprocesses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smarterbusinessprocesses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smarterbusinessprocesses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smarterbusinessprocesses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smarterbusinessprocesses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smarterbusinessprocesses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smarterbusinessprocesses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smarterbusinessprocesses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smarterbusinessprocesses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}