Highlighting an entire row

Conditional Formatting in Google Sheets

Adam Steinfurth

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sales detail

Conditional Formatting in Google Sheets

Select all columns

Sales report with range selected

Conditional Formatting in Google Sheets

Order of evaluation

  • Left to right

  • Down one row

  • Left to right again

  • Highlighted one cell at a time

Conditional Formatting in Google Sheets

Fixing column references

A B C
1 12 22 8
2 21 7 2
3 =A1+A2 =B1+B2 =C1+C2
4 =$B1+$B2 =$B1+$B2 =$B1+$B2

   

Left to right

References move in row 3, stay the same in row 4

Conditional Formatting in Google Sheets

Fixing your formula

Formula with fixed column reference

Conditional Formatting in Google Sheets

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Conditional Formatting in Google Sheets

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