XL2000: Conditional Formats May Not Work on Rich Text Cells (211901)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Excel 2000
This article was previously published under Q211901

SYMPTOMS

If you apply a Conditional Number format to a cell, the formatting that you specified may not be applied to the entire cell contents when the condition for that format is met in the cell.

CAUSE

The formatting that you specified for a Conditional Number format may not be applied to the entire cell contents if the cell contains Rich Text formatting.

RESOLUTION

If you want the formatting that you specified for a Conditional Number format to be applied to the entire cell contents, remove any Rich Text formatting in the cell.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

The following steps demonstrate the issue described in the "Symptoms" section earlier in this document:
  1. Open a new worksheet and enter the following in Sheet1:
       A1: this is rich-text
  2. Double-click cell A1 to activate in-cell editing.

    NOTE: If you have turned off the option to allow editing directly in cells, you will need to turn it back on for this demonstration. To turn on direct editing in cells, click Options on the Tools menu; click the Edit tab, and then click to select the Edit directly in cell check box.
  3. Select just the "rich-text" portion of cell A1, and then click Cells on the Format menu.
  4. In the Format Cells dialog box, click the Font tab. Then, click Bold in the Font style list, and click OK.
  5. Press ENTER. Note that the "rich text" portion of cell A1 is bold.
  6. Select cell A1, and then click Conditional Formatting on the Format menu.
  7. In the Conditional Formatting dialog box, set the first drop-down box to Cell Value Is; set the second drop-down box to equal to, and then type this is rich-text in the box to the right of the second drop-down box.
  8. Click Format. On the Font tab in the Format Cells dialog box, click a red color in the Color drop-down box, and then click OK.

    This will set the conditional formatting for the cell so that when cell A1 contains the text "this is rich-text" (without the quotation marks), the text in the cell will change to red.
  9. Click OK in the Conditional Formatting dialog box.
NOTE: Only the "this is" portion of cell A1 is changed to red.

REFERENCES

For more information about Conditional Formatting, click Microsoft Excel Help on the Help menu, type conditional formatting in the Office Assistant or the Answer Wizard, and then click Search to view the topics returned.
Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:10/8/2003
Keywords:kbbug kbpending KB211901
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