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user3045580
user3045580

Reputation: 195

Conditional formatting for cell that contain text (not number)

I would like to apply conditional formatting to highlight cell that contain text (not number), is there a way of doing this?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 56007

Answers (3)

Jeff
Jeff

Reputation: 1

Use Format Cell Value NOT BETWEEN (Any number range). Excel will format all the text cells as they're not numbers so do not fall into the value range.

Upvotes: 0

pnuts
pnuts

Reputation: 59495

You might use a Conditional Formatting formula rule of:

=ISTEXT(A1)

where the cell is non numeric or contains text.

Upvotes: 4

JNevill
JNevill

Reputation: 50308

For your conditional formatting formula, you can use: =isnumber(0+A1) assuming A1 is your cell that you are testing.

The 0+ bit will attempt to add 0 to the contents of A1, which will convert the contents to a number, even if it's a number stored as text.

Upvotes: 2

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