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Excel -- Retaining Color Shading in Combo Box

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ImASig

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Jul 24, 2000
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I have an excel spreadsheet with one column as a combo box whose list is populated from values on another sheet in the same workbook. It is set up as so:

Sheet1

Name | Value | Type
PartA $100 (Combo Box Selection)
PartB $200 (Combo Box Selection)

Sheet2

TypeList|
TypeA1 (Shaded Red)
TypeA2 (Shaded Red)
TypeB1 (Shaded Blue)
TypeB2 (Shaded Blue)

What is want is the shading color to carry over to sheet 1 when I make the type selection from the combo box. Is this possible or will I have to shade the selection manually on sheet 1?
 


Hi,

Take a look at Format/Conditional Formatting.

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I did this and I ran into a couple of problems. First I couldn't reference a cell on a different sheet. So I moved my list over to sheet1 just to see if I could get it to go. The next problem I encountered was that it seems I can only create 3 conditions. I have more than 3 colors I need so that didn't seem to fit my needs either. I'm guessing it's gonna have to be a VB thing.
 
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