Wow - do I have a major excel puzzel. I need to be able to automatically highlight the first line ONLY in a group of cells. For example - If I have sorted the data by column A (which is number coded) then I would like to automatically highlight ONLY the first row in the group that had the #1 in the field and ONLY highlight the first line in the group that had the #2 in the field. I would also like each group to automatically put a box around each group but I figure one step at a time. Please Help - manual takes FOREVER!
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automatic highlighting only 1st line in each group of lines in excel
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Hi MsLost
I'll assume you know your way around Conditional Formatting (if that's not the case please come back and I'll step you through it).
The conditional rule would be
=A$2<>A$1
and it would apply to cells $A$2:$G$200 (you'd adjust this to the width and length of your table but it MUST start in A2 to match the conditional rule)
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