To change the range of cells that the conditional formatting rules applies to, you donвЂ™t need to go to the вЂEdit Formatting RuleвЂ™ box above. If you donвЂ™t want your cells to turn green when it includes the text вЂњL compatibleвЂќ (or something else), you can have it turn yellow instead.ДЄs you see thereвЂ™re enough options, but wait вЂ“ thereвЂ™s more!ДЄll of the above is very nice, but if you accidentally selected the wrong area when you made the conditional formatting rule вЂ“ then it doesnвЂ™t help to change the вЂRule TypeвЂ™ or whether the cells should be red or blue.ДЄnd if you spent 5 minutes entering a unique formula to вЂњtriggerвЂќ the formatting, then it sucks to delete it and do it all over. From this little (familiar) box you can change the formatting that you applied in the first place.

If you keep the вЂSpecific textвЂ™ you can decide here whether the cell should contain, not contain, begin with or end with the text that you enter in the field to the right.This means that the formatting applies when a cell is empty or, for example, holds a value greater than, or less than, 100. Here you edit your rule so it no longer вЂњtriggersвЂќ on a cell containing specific text, by choosing вЂњBlanksвЂќ or вЂњCell ValueвЂќ. If you keep the вЂRule TypeвЂ™ you can change the вЂњ triggerвЂќ of the formatting.You can also make the rule more advanced by basing it on a formula. If you donвЂ™t want the conditional formatting to apply when вЂњsomethingвЂќ happens in a cell, you can change it to apply on all cells and filling them with color based on their value compared to the average of the data. Below weвЂ™ll go through the different options shown in above screenshot.

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