Highlight current date
Cell range B3:B14 has conditional formatting applied, the formula checks if the date is today.
Conditional formatting formula:
A conditional formatting formula must evaluate to TRUE or FALSE or their equivalents any number or 0 (zero).
The TODAY function returns today's date. The equal sign compares the value to the date in cell B3 and returns TRUE or FALSE.
How to apply conditional formatting to a cell range
- Select cell range.
- Go to tab "Home"
- Press with left mouse button on "Conditional Formatting" button.
- Press with left mouse button on "New Rule..."
- Select "Use a formula to determine which cells to format"
- Type the formula in field "Format values where this formula is true:"
- Press with left mouse button on "Format" button, then pick a formatting.
- Press with left mouse button on OK button.
- Press with left mouse button on OK button.
Highlight records based on date being today
Conditional formatting formula:
This CF-formula is applied to cell range B3:D12.
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