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Excel - Conditional Forumla Question


Expert: Richard Rost - 7/8/2009

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Good Day

Thank you for taking the time to answer my question


What I am trying to do is to know 90 days before a day is to come in to effect and to have it high light red.

spread sheet. I was given this formula
=AND(INT(NOW())>0,INT(NOW()-B1)<=90)

I was given this formula by another expert but it doesn't seem to be working.

also how would I go about setting up a formula to know how many days past due something is?

thank you in advanced

Andrew

Answer
Just make another field and set that field equal to:

=IF((A1-90)<=TODAY(),1,0)

Where A1 is your date. Format this cell as a number. Now, use conditional formatting to set this cell's color if it's 1 or 0 (true or false).

Excel has a feature called Conditional Formatting that you can use to change the format (color, font, bold, etc.) based on the value of the cell.

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