My spreadsheet has over 30 conditional formatting rules and I was wondering if I could combine them.
I've attached the picture to give an idea but basically, the user can set/change the cancelation policies on the right (BC9:BF18) by setting a start/end date and selecting a policy.
I then use conditional formatting to color the calendar using this info (each cell of the calendar is set to its actual date, so the blue June 1 cell actually contains 01/June/2021 but is formatted to just show 1). For each row of the BC9:BF18 table, I have the following rules (eg. for first row [9]):
=AND(E9>=$BC$9,E9<=$BE$9,$BF$9="High") - Change to blue
=AND(E9>=$BC$9,E9<=$BE$9,$BF$9="Standard") - Change to white
=AND(E9>=$BC$9,E9<=$BE$9,$BF$9="Peak") - Change to red
=AND(E9>=$BC$9,E9<=$BE$9,$BF$9) - Change to a set color
That's 4 rules for each of the 10 lines (BC9:BC18), so 40 different conditional formats.
I'd now like to add to that that if the day is a holiday (holiday dates will be in a table below, let's say BC30:BC60) then make the font red but keep the background color in line with the cancelation policy.
This will require loads and loads more conditional formatting rules which would need to go above all the old rules eg. =AND(E9>=$BC$9,E9<=$BE$9,$BF$9="High",[OR(E9=$BC$30, E9=$BC$31....)] - Change to blue with red font, Can anyone see a way to simplify this?
I have a few suggestions but I'm not sure if they'll work:
(a) Changing the order so that the end date doesn't matter, the next formula will overwrite on its start date
(b) Checking all policies that match 'High' (so if(BF9:BF18='High'... somehow get that start/end date etc.
(c) for the new bit (checking if the date is in table BC30:BC60) there must be an easier way than checking if the date matches BC30 then BC31 then BC32 `=OR(E9=$BC$30,E9=$BC$31,E9=$BC$32, etc.
To avoid your option "c" you can use the MATCH function. Create a conditional rule which applies to all the ranges where you want the font color to be red if holiday.
Example:
Suppose your holiday list is in range A2:A and the date you are checking is in C2 then the custom conditional formula would be:
=match(C2, A1:A)
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I have a column of values that are a number out of 10. So, it could be 2/10, 3/10, 4/10 and so on, all the way up to 10/10. To be clear, these are not dates, but simply showing how many questions the student answered correctly out of 10.
I'm trying to use conditional formatting to highlight them a certain color depending upon the score they got. For 9/10 and 10/10, I'm wanting to use a certain color, but it doesn't seem to be working with REGEXMATCH or with OR. Also wanting to highlight all scores that are 6/10 or lower. I know that I could make this work by applying conditional formatting for each and every score with text contains but the problem I'm finding is that it thinks it's a date.
Is there a way to match multiple scores out of 10 using REGEXMATCH?
Link to Sheet
select column and change formatting to Plain text
now you can use formula like:
=REGEXMATCH(A1; "^9|10\/")
I'm running into an issue when trying to compare data across two sheets to find discrepancies - specifically when it comes to comparing start and end times.
Right now, the "IF" statement in my screenshot is executing perfectly, except when a time is involved - it's reading those cells as decimals instead (but only sometimes).
I've tried formatting these cells (on the raw data AND on this "Discrepancies" report sheet) so that they are displayed as a "HH:MM am/pm" time, but the sheet is still comparing the decimal values.
Is there anything that I can add to this function to account for a compared value being a time instead of text, and having that text be compared for any discrepancies? I cannot add or change anything to the raw data sheets, the only thing I can edit is the formula seen in the screenshot I provided.
See the highlighted cells in my screenshot - this is the issue I keep running into. As you can see, there are SOME cells (the non-highlighted ones) that are executing as intended, but I'm unsure why this isn't the case for the whole spreadsheet when I've formatted everything the same way using the exact same formula across the whole sheet.
For example, the values in cell N2 is "8:00 AM" on both sheets, so the formula should just display "8:00 AM" in that cell (and NOT be highlighted) since there is no discrepancy in the cells between both sheets it's comparing. But instead, it's showing both times as a decimal with the slightest difference between them and is suggesting a difference where there technically isn't (or shouldn't be) one.
Please help!
Screenshot of original spreadsheet for reference
---EDIT (added the below):
Here is a view-only version of a SAMPLE SHEET that displays the issue I'm having:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BdSQGsCajB3kOnYxzM3sl-0o3iTvR3ABdHpnzYRXjpA/edit?usp=sharing
On the sample sheet, the only cells that are performing as intended are C2, E2, G2, I2, K2, K6, or any cells that contain text like "Closed". Any of the other cells that have a time in both raw data tabs appears to be pulling the serial numbers for those times instead of correctly formatting it into "HH:mm AM/PM".
A quick tour of how the SAMPLE SHEET is set up:
User enters raw data into the "MicrositeRawData" and "SalesforceRawData" tabs.
Data is pulled from the "SalesforceRawData" tab into the "CleanedUpSalesforceData" tab using a QUERY that matches the UNIQUE ID's from the "MicrositeRawData" sheet, so that it essentially creates a tab that's in the same order and accounts for any extraneous data between the tabs (keep in mind this is a sample sheet and that the original sheet I'm using includes a lot more data which causes a mismatch of rows between the sheets which makes the QUERY necessary).
The "DISCREPANCIES" tab then compares the data between the "MicrositeRawData" and "CleanedUpSalesforceData" tabs. If the data is the same, it simply copies the data from the "MicrositeRawData" cell. But if the data is NOT the same, it lists the values from both sheets and is conditionally formatted to highlight those cells in yellow.
If there is data on the "MicrositeRawData" tab that is NOT included on the "SalesforceRawData" tab, the "DISCREPANCIES" tab will notate that and highlight the "A" cell in pink instead of yellow (as demonstrated in "A5").
try in B2:
=IF(MicrositeRawData!B2=CleanedUpSalesforceData!B2, MicrositeRawData!B2,
"MICROSITE: "&TEXT(MicrositeRawData!B2, "h:mm AM/PM")&CHAR(10)&
"SALESFORCE: "&TEXT(CleanedUpSalesforceData!B2, "h:mm AM/PM"))
update
delete all formulae from range B2:O10 and use this in B2:
=ARRAYFORMULA(IF(TO_TEXT(MicrositeRawData!B2:O10)=
TO_TEXT(CleanedUpSalesforceData!B2:O10), MicrositeRawData!B2:O10,
"MICROSITE: "&TEXT(IF(MicrositeRawData!B2:O10="",
"", MicrositeRawData!B2:O10), "h:mm AM/PM")&CHAR(10)&
"SALESFORCE: "&TEXT(IF(CleanedUpSalesforceData!B2:O10="",
"", CleanedUpSalesforceData!B2:O10), "h:mm AM/PM")))
MY GOAL:
parse a MM/DD date from the result of a vlookup so that it can be used in a project plan
BACKGROUND:
The vlookup result contains multiple values separated by a "•" (I don't need all of them)
The value I'm looking to parse is not always in the same location in the vlookup result (otherwise I could use the RIGHT formula)
There is a finite number of the values I'm looking to retrieve (and I know them already)
The value that I'm looking to retrieve contains some text with a date range; I only want the first four values in the date range (MM/DD)
I'd like to achieve all this with a single formula with the result in a single cell
CURRENT FORMULA
The formula that I've been working on that is not working is:
=ARRAYFORMULA(if(iserror(search(Iterations!D2:D7,(VLOOKUP(A2,'Results {2596503}'!$C$2:$L$183,3)))),,))
I've set up a sheet called "Erik Help" with the following formulas in B2 ad C2:
=ArrayFormula(IF(A2:A="","",MID(VLOOKUP(A2:A,data!A2:B,2,FALSE),FIND(REGEXEXTRACT(VLOOKUP(A2:A,data!A2:B,2,FALSE),"[0-9]-[0-9]"),VLOOKUP(A2:A,data!A2:B,2,FALSE))-4,5)))
and
=ArrayFormula(IF(A2:A="","",MID(VLOOKUP(A2:A,data!A2:B,2,FALSE),FIND(REGEXEXTRACT(VLOOKUP(A2:A,data!A2:B,2,FALSE),"[0-9]-[0-9]"),VLOOKUP(A2:A,data!A2:B,2,FALSE))+2,5)))
respectively.
They may be longer than actually needed, but you did not share realistic results in Column B or list which symbols may appear in Column B other than in the date; so I tried to account for either a hyphen or a forward slash possibly appearing in Column B in places other than within the date span.
Your analytics sheet also shows a formula that is sorting the results from data!A:A. So even though in your example the original data order happens to be the same as in analytics!A:A, that is not a given (again, based on your formula). Therefore, the VLOOKUP is also necessary.
You did not indicate whether you need to further use these returned date-snippets in calculations, or whether you just need to view them. So the results generated in "Erik Help" are text.
If you want usable numbers/dates, you add further issues that would need to be controlled for in the formula, because you'll only be extracting month and day, not year. That's fine right now. But what about when the date range to be extracted is "12/28-01/13"? If you simply make these values/dates, they will both be assigned to the current year. So the end date here will wind up being earlier than the start date.
Because of this, I've added a second sheet, "Erik Help 2," which contains extended formulas to account for these cases while still returning the date format you want as actual dates which can be used in calculations.
EDIT
(following your note on the sheet: "I would like to remove col b altogether and nest in the formulas in col c and d")
You can adjust the range B2:B by replacing it with your already existing formula in B2.
The new adjusted formula will become
=ArrayFormula(IFNA(SPLIT(REGEXEXTRACT(VLOOKUP(ARRAYFORMULA(sort(unique(data!A2:A))),data!$A$1:$C,2),"\d+\/\d+-\d+\/\d+"),"-")))
Original answer
You can use the following formula:
=ArrayFormula(IFNA(SPLIT(REGEXEXTRACT(B2:B,"\d{2}\/\d{2}-\d{2}\/\d{2}"),"-")))
Make sure you format the results as Date.
(Please adjust ranges to your needs)
Functions used:
ArrayFormula
IFNA
SPLIT
REGEXEXTRACT
try:
=ARRAYFORMULA(IF(A2:A="",,IFNA(TEXT(SPLIT(REGEXEXTRACT(
VLOOKUP(data!A2:A, data!A:C, 2), "\d+/\d+-\d+/\d+"), "-"), "mm/dd"))))
So I have searched through several different questions related to this. None of them seem to be asking exactly what I'm looking for and none of the solutions I've found have worked for me thus far.
I have several columns of data (Player names) where each column's values are generated from a formula in the 2nd row of that column. The 1st row is a header (Game name). This whole range is the collection of which players are willing to play which games. These are columns D-J(ish, the list is dynamically generated with another formula, based on form responses)
I have another range of data where the 1st column is the Player and the 2nd is the player's PREFERRED game. This data is also generated with a formula based on form responses. These are columns A-B.
Here's what I'm trying to do
Using conditional formatting in columns D-J, I want to highlight the player's name if this game (in row 1 of this column) is their preferred game (range A2:B).
I've tried several different variations of VLOOKUPS, MATCHES, and FILTERS in the conditional formatting, but so far nothing has worked. The problem I run into every time is that I can't figure out how to reference the cell that the formatting is applying to, but still have it reference each individual cell over the whole range.
I know I could do this if I applied an individual conditional formatting to each individual cell. However that is a very time consuming and inelegant solution to this issue considering I'm expecting my data range to be much larger in the future. I need a conditional formatting formula that will work across the whole range or , at the very least, for an entire column.
This is a mock of what I'm trying to accomplish:
This is a link to a mock of my sheet so that you can clearly see the data layout and specific formulas I'm using:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wy1T6dWJwNC_EfdCAbkuxtkJH7y4Cg3x4IyEk6R567M/edit?usp=sharing
use:
=REGEXMATCH(D3, TEXTJOIN("|", 1, FILTER($A$3:$A, $B$3:$B=D$2)))
I'm trying to write a simple formula for Google Sheets. The logic is as follows:
if(it is a specific date & it is today){fill cell color with this color}
I know this needs to be done in the conditional formatting section but I am unable to get it right.
I've tried:
if(TODAY(),RegExMatch("Tuesday May 2, 2017"))
RegExMatch("Tuesday May 2, 2017") AND IF(TODAY())
IF(TODAY() AND RegExMatch("Tuesday May 2, 2017"))
but none of those work and return errors such as 'parse & invalid' when attempting to write it in the cell box.
REGEXMATCH can be used in Conditional formatting (eg) but it seems way overkill here. Please select the relevant range (I am assuming ColumnA - populated with 'true' dates, not text) and clear any existing CF rules from it. Format, Conditional formatting..., Format cells if... Custom formula is and
=and(A1=today(),A1=42858)
with fill colour of choice and Done.
Here 42858 happens to be the index number for today, but would be replaced with that for your specific date.
Have you tried just getting the value of TODAY()? It returns the date in mm/dd/yyyy format. Your RegExMatch will always fail.
You don't need to use any formula. Use this guide to see how you can use conditional formatting rules on individual or multiple cells. The correct way to do what you want to do is to select a cell, click on Format -> Conditional formatting... -> Format cells if... -> Date is -> today
If you're referring to the cell box in the 'Custom formula' section, you simply need to write =TODAY().
Not sure I'm following exactly, but if your date is in col A:
=AND(DATEVALUE(a1)=datevalue("5/2/2017"),DATEVALUE(a1)=DATEVALUE(today()))
this seems to work. The date has to be parseable to date by sheets for DATEVALUE to work though.
Image has the column in an IF as well setting 1 or 0 just an example of the logic too.