Hi all,



I am trying to highlight a blank cell as a reminder to the user to perform an action with an approaching due date (based on multiple conditions).

My active cell (the potentially blank cell) is G5. I need the formula to only highlight G5 red if all of the following are true:

1. G5 is blank
2. the value in B5 is equal to the letter "C" (this is a text cell)
3. today's date is within 45 days of a year after the date entered in cell D5 (this is a client intake date and is the basis for all of the due dates in the row, and the target action must be performed within 365 days of that initial date).

I was trying to piece together various rules I had seen from other threads. I'm currently working with what is shown below, but of course it's not working. Any ideas? Thank you in advance for any assistance you can provide.

=AND($B$5="C",$D$5="",D5<=(TODAY()-320))

Should the middle argument reference G5 per your explanation of the issue?


=AND($B$5="C",$D$5="",D5<=(TODAY()-320))

Thank you both for the replies. Yes that was a typo in my post (but not in my actual formula). It looks like the issue is with the date.

EDIT

Okay I have tried a few iterations and I'm still stuck on the date. I suppose I'm just not understanding. I feel like this should work, but I'm getting buggy results:

=AND($B$5="C",D5<=(TODAY()-320),$G$5="")

After entering that conditional formula, I tested it by changing the date in cell D5 to some dates that were clearly out of range on both sides. At first it seemed to recognize the cutoff by highlighting red at the right value, but then when I changed the date to the other side of the range, the red would not go away. Any ideas? (I tried putting the arguments in alphabetical order out of curiosity, but that did not seem to make a difference).

Actually that is working--I had to save the document for it to stop being buggy. Not sure why but glad it worked.