{"id":52,"date":"2018-12-26T07:29:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T07:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/?p=52"},"modified":"2021-09-29T06:07:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T06:07:54","slug":"conditional-formatting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/conditional-formatting\/","title":{"rendered":"How to copy or drag down a condition in Conditional formatting? &#8211; MS Excel"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> While copying or auto-fill the condition in conditional formatting, the reference cell remains a constant which becomes a hurdle when you want to apply a variable condition. This can be overcome by changing the constant to a variable by removing the $ symbol in the reference cell as below.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Images\/Conditional_formatting\/01.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Images\/Conditional_formatting\/02.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Images\/Conditional_formatting\/03.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Images\/Conditional_formatting\/04.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Images\/Conditional_formatting\/05.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span lang=\"en-gb\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Conditional_formatting.xlsx\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Download sample excel file<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtoexcel.info\/Excel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}