Need Help with Excel Conditional Formatting

I am making a manpower schedule for work and i only put in a couple months to view right now. I will spread out the dates as we get closer to them and hide the previous ones. I am trying to do a conditional formatting where if the column says saturday or sunday anywhere, i want that whole column to be grayed out. Is that possible?



The left grayed out is done manually, but where it says AX and AY, i did a conditional formatting where a specific text (Saturday and Sunday) is present, it grays out the cell, i am wondering how i can gray out the whole column without doing it manually.

Note: i don't know anything about macros. I am limited knowledge when it comes to formulas and i have no idea how data validation works.

 

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com...tire-row-based-on-data-in-one-cell/m-p/779037

Just adjust the formula for the column instead of the row.

 

I know this is of no help to you but IMO MS totally broke conditional formatting after the 2003 era Office versions. So don't feel bad, it's awful in the newest version of Excel.

 

I think this will work, i am just going to have to change my bearings. I will try in the afternoon. They make such an easy thing so complicated.

 

did you get this figured out? there's an way to have excel look at a date value and identify what day of the week it is. seems like a text value is your route but this way is a little 'lighter'

=Weekday(your serial date cell) will display a 1 for sunday and a 7 for saturday. if you have a hidden helper row that just references your day, and then format the whole column based on the value in that helper row. after you know its working, hide the helper row.

hope you are all set!

 

I ended up doing this manually but i will try that when i get a chance... i made the sheet and my boss doesn't even want to use it.

 

ChatGPT:

To automatically gray out a column underneath a header row if it contains "Saturday" or "Sunday" anywhere, follow these steps:

1. Click on the cell in the header row of the column you want to format.
2. Go to the "Home" tab in the Excel ribbon.
3. Click on "Conditional Formatting" in the toolbar.
4. Choose "New Rule" from the drop-down menu.
5. Select "Use a formula to determine which cells to format."
6. Enter a formula like =COUNTIFS($1:$1,"Saturday",$2:$2,"Sunday")>0. Adjust the row references based on your header row position.
7. Click on the "Format" button, set the desired formatting (e.g., fill color), and click "OK."

This formula checks if either "Saturday" or "Sunday" is present in the corresponding column underneath the header row. If true, the formatting will be applied to that entire column.

 

ChatGPT is a great tool for programming help- I use it for Python and C++, but it has great help for various programs as well.

Note: I didn’t know what version of Excel you were using, it helps to get a more accurate answer from ChatGPT if you add the version of the program or programming language you are using in your question also.

 

looks like i will have to utilize chatgpt more often then. I really thought i would not need AI to do my job.

 

It makes writing employee reviews less of a pain in the ass.

 

I work in construction doing government contracts. We have alot of paperwork but since each project and each contract differs, there is no cookie cutter approach which always made us think AI would not be needed much in our field.

 

i should rephrase my last statement a bit... we do not have a cookie cutter approach but we do have templates we work off of but they all get modified heavily to make it specific to the project and contracts.