#Symbol for does not equal in google sheets how to#
Let us try to remove this error and find out a method to exactly highlight the text.ĮXAMPLE 2: HOW TO HIGHLIGHT THE TEXT WHICH MATCHES EXACTLY TO THE GIVEN TEXT ? It means it won’t give us an exact match for the conditional formatting in google sheets. It’ll highlight the word HELLO and all the variants ignoring the case of the letters. In the following animated picture, we changed many cells to HELLO and you can see that the fill color changes as soon as the word is detected.Īs we changed the text, the color is gone. RUNNING THE EXAMPLEĪfter putting all the conditions, let us try to see if it works or not. All the cells containing HELLO or hello will be highlighted.
Enter the formula in the field as =D3=”HELLO”. A field will appear to enter the formula. Click the last option: CUSTOM FORMULA IS. Go to FORMAT CELLS IF drop down, scroll it down. The CONDITIONAL FORMATTING RULES window will open. Go to FORMAT MENU>CONDITIONAL FORMATTING. STEPS to highlight cells using the custom formula: We can get the same result by using the CUSTOM FORMULA too. NOTE: This method will HIGHLIGHT ALL THE TEXT INCLUDING hello, Hello, hellO or any other big small case combination which means there won't be any distinction on the basis of the case of the text. HELLO HOW ARE YOU RED GREEN YELLOW BLUE GREY WHITE BIG BUFFALO ZEBRA XYLOPHONE SMALL BLACK APPLE MANGO GUAVA ONION PUMPKIN OKRA KIWI POTATO SPRINGĪll the cells containing HELLO word will be highlighted with a pink cell fill color. Let us find out the cell which contains a text value equal to some SPECIFIED TEXT.įor the example let us take this block of text values in GOOGLE SHEETS. Let us now learn the way by which we can apply the conditional formatting based on text.ĮXAMPLES SHOWING CONDITIONAL FORMATTING BASED ON TEXT.ĮXAMPLE 1: HIGHLIGHTING THE TEXT EQUAL TO SOME VALUE: Maximum times, we apply the conditional formatting on the basis of values present in the cells. IT IS RECOMMENDED TO LEARN THE BASICS ABOUT CONDITIONAL FORMATTING, IF NOT VERY COMFORTABLE WITH THIS TOPIC.ĬLICK HERE TO LEARN THE BASICS OF CONDITIONAL FORMATTING. Formatting comprises of the foreground color, background color, font, size etc. We can put many conditions in the cell and program the GOOGLE SHEETS to make the formatting, as desired, if the particular condition is met. WHAT IS CONDITIONAL FORMATTING BASED ON TEXT ?ĬONDITIONAL FORMATTING is the process of formatting in GOOGLE SHEETS on the basis of the conditions. Similarly if we want to avoid any calculations for a number it needs to be put as a text. If we need to make anything inactive, such as Date to be non responding to the calculation, we put it as a text. ANYTHING STORED AS TEXT WON’T RESPOND TO ANY STANDARD FORMULAS OR FUNCTIONS BUT SPECIALLY DESIGNED TEXT FUNCTIONS. TEXT IS AN INACTIVE NUMBER TYPE IN GOOGLE SHEETS. We can perform the operations on the strings or the characters.Characters are not limited to A to Z or a to z but many symbols are also included in this which we would see in the later part of the article. Text comprises of the individual entity character which is the smallest bit which would be found in GOOGLE SHEETS. Every character is connected with a code. TEXT is simply the group of characters and strings of characters which convey the information about the different data and numbers in GOOGLE SHEETS. You’ll be amazed to see the capability of conditional formatting and its use which is awesome. If you haven’t used this, kindly go through the link LEARN TO USE CONDITIONAL FORMATTING IN GOOGLE SHEETS for the introduction. 
It simply means that if we put the conditions on the Text, the list or table which is containing the different text values, will be highlighted.įor example, if we have long list and we want to search for some specific word, case specific search, any text containing any specific character or any other type of condition, we can make use of conditional formatting.
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