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From the course: Excel Weekly Challenge
Conditional formatting and sorting icons
- [Instructor] We've got this table of scores, and we would like to liven things up a little bit. We want the happy faces to blue, sad faces to be orange, and we want that to happen automatically with conditional formatting, and then the next thing we want to do is sort the table so that the yeses are up top, and then score one is sorted descending. You got that? Alright, so when you're ready, pause the video, bring up the exercise file, get it all worked out, come back, and I'll take you through a solution. Alright, you're back. Now something that we have to pay attention to. Look at this formula. The happy faces are Js, and the sad faces are Ls. That's what we have to work with. So let's do the conditional formatting. Highlight the entire column, conditional formatting, highlight cell rules, text that contains J. Now it's highlighted all of the happy faces. We do not want this red default. We've got to click this arrow, custom format. We're on the font tab. We want blue. Let's pick…
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What is this formula doing?2m 39s
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Pricing grid and drop-down list3m 42s
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Write a formula trigger3m 14s
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Merge and compare lists3m 24s
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Recreate this graphic5m 5s
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Insert a happy or sad face3m
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Conditional formatting and sorting icons2m 35s
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Crop and print1m 53s
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Quick access and theme2m 8s
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Update graphs3m 26s
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Insert a PivotTable2m 26s
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Delete transactions and insert a PivotTable2m 58s
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