Within the Conditional Formatting function, Google has provided the option of using custom formulas. These custom formulas are what you'll have to use in order to make this thing work.

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For you advanced users who want to skip ahead: You apply the conditional formatting using a custom formula and some variation on the INDIRECT function. In addition to specifying the column and row, ...

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Excel's conditional formatting lets you formats cells based on the value of those cells or their formulas. Learn the basics of this amazing feature.

And it will be automatically updated in Sheet1 whenever I change the text in Sheet2. Adapting This Trick for Conditional Formatting Now, just as we learned last time around, we can use "if" statements ...

Click the Conditional Formatting dropdown in the Styles group and choose New Rule. From the Select A Rule Type list, choose Use A Formula To Determine Which Cells To Format.

Use a logical OR operator in conditional formatting The equality operator we used in the last section was easy to implement, but it doesn’t work as expected when applied to a single-column range.