conditional formatting problem

[T. Valko]

This has me completely stumped!

Why doesn't this conditional formatting get applied?

Screencap:

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/8344/cfproblembt4.jpg

The formula is correct. I've put the same formula in column O (adjusted for
the column offset) and as you can see, evaluates to TRUE.

That highlighted 23 is also conditionally formatted. Just a test to make
sure that *any* CF is working.

Thanks
Biff

 

[T. Valko]

P.S.

I know this can be done with different formulas. Please don't offer other
formulas. I want to know why *this* formula isn't working!

Thank you
Biff

 

[Toppers]

Biff,
Won't the INDIRECT part produce a circular reference (or have I
completely misunderstood how the CF is applied.... not for the first
time!!!). If so, it won't work.

 

[Bernie Deitrick]

Biff,

When I enter numbers into the Address function, it works, but doesn't when I
use ROW() and/or COLUMN().

Perhaps it is too nested for CF.

Bernie

 

[T. Valko]

No, not when used if CF. If it were a cell formula then yes, it would be a
circular reference.

I tried this last night and it worked! The same formula less the COUNT
portion. I did this in a reply to a post in the .misc group.

Biff

 

[T. Valko]

Well, I'm making progress!

If I remove the AND(COUNT(......) it works.

=INDIRECT(ADDRESS(ROW(),COLUMN()))=MIN(N$7,N$19,N$31)

Screencap:

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/6739/cfproblemafj9.jpg

As you can see it does work with empty row/column arguments.

Here's the post from last night:

http://tinyurl.com/ysdmax

I've used much more complex formulas in CF than these!

I hate not knowing what's causing this to not work.

Biff

 

[Peo Sjoblom]

Interesting, both these works

=(COUNT(N$31,N$43,N$55)>0)*(INDIRECT(ADDRESS(ROW(),COLUMN()))=MIN(N$7,N$19,N$31))=1



=AND(COUNT(N$7,N$19,N$31)>0,(INDIRECT(INDEX(ADDRESS(ROW(),COLUMN()),1,1))=MIN(N$7,N$19,N$31)))



Maybe Harlan can shred some light on this?


--
Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

 

[Toppers]

Biff,
It doesn't work if you just wrap it in an AND statement, although I
can see no reason why it shouldn't..

=IF(AND(A1=123),"T","F") works as a normal formula

=AND(INDIRECT(ADDRESS(ROW(),COLUMN()))=MIN(N$7,N$19,N$31)) doesn't work in CF

.....?????

 

[T. Valko]

It doesn't work if you just wrap it in an AND statement,

although I can see no reason why it shouldn't..

Yeah, that's where I'm at!

I can see no reason why it shouldn't work.

Biff

 

[driller]

hi there

ive tried these on CF at cell N7

=COUNT($N$7,$N$19,$N$31)*(N7=MIN($N$7,$N$19,$N$31))

=AND(COUNT($N$7,$N$19,$N$31)>0,(N7=MIN($N$7,$N$19,$N$31)))

i also like to know why your formula dont work with both indirect and count
function inside an *and*...

regards,
driller

 

[T. Valko]

There are better formulas to use for this but this is part of the learning
process.

The formula I tried isn't the best formula for this but I was experimenting.
That formula is both logically and syntactically correct but it doesn't
work. I would just like to know why!

Biff