is there any way to have more than 3 conditional formats per cell

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Greg L

I'm trying to use conditional formatting in Excel but am limited to only 3.
Has anyone found a way around this?? I have 4 letters with different
background colors that I'm using and rather than copy and pasting I'm trying
to use a cell pull down but end up having to manually copy and paste one due
to the fact I'm using a default clear cell as a starting point.

Thanks, Greg
 
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JLatham

The only way I've found around the 3-condition limit is to write a custom VBA
macro to detect when a change in the cell(s) takes place, evaluate the new
value and set the format accordingly. You can have virtually unlimited
conditions using this method.
 
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Greg L

Thank you for the help.

JLatham said:
The only way I've found around the 3-condition limit is to write a custom VBA
macro to detect when a change in the cell(s) takes place, evaluate the new
value and set the format accordingly. You can have virtually unlimited
conditions using this method.
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Dave O

Do you mean "more than 3 formats" or "more than three logical
conditions"? Sometimes you can group logical conditions within one of
the three available input boxes. Just checking---
 
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Greg L

I have tried this program and it works for the first portion of my worksheet
to about cell 390 of the 780 that I have in this sheet, but then when I
select the next cell my pull down button appears, when selecting one of the
four letter options it puts the letter in there but does not give the color
formatting I have created for that letter.
My problem is I don't know how to program VB code and I'm sure there is a
really simple way to make a pull down menu for each cell and have 4 letters
with one color designated to each letter, I just don't know how to do it.

Thanks, Greg
 
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