conditional DATE formatting?

[LTUser54]

I want to highlight dates greater than 1/1/2006 in a column of numbers.


I've been poking around with Conditional formatting for about 30
minutes with this and getting nowhere.

I put DATE(2006,1,1) in cell A1, selected a small range of cells that
go from 12/05 to 2006 and tried using CellValueIs greater than
="$a$1" and selected bright green background for the cell.

that didn't work.

Any suggestions, please?

 

[Ardus Petus]

Drop the quotes:
=$A$1

HTH

 

[Toppers]

Putting "01/01/2006" (no "s) in a cell and then repeating your conditional
formatting worked OK for me.

XL2003