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Hi all, I'm wondering if any of you can help me with some conditional formatting logic. 

It should be quite simple: I want to create a conditional formatting rule that only changes the font colour and not the fill. The reason is because I already have certain fill colours for the subtotals in my table (i.e.: margin, ebitda, etc.) and I don't want to override the fill colour for these subtotals. So my conditional formatting should only change the font colour instead. 

Is there any way to do this? I’ve tried using the ‘transparent’ fill colour, but that doesn't help.

Any help is much appreciated!

@Bas You may want to unlink the fill color and font color, then keep the fill color the same as the subtotals.
 

 


Hi ​@Min Li Bright Point : thanks for your reply. But I'm afraid that won't work. Because that would create a fill in the cells that I don't want filled.

For reference, the table below shows that the ‘net sales’ and ‘gross margin’ subtotals are filled. I want to have the font colour in the cells of the ‘versus budget 2025’ column to be conditionally red or green. But the fill needs to remain the same.

 

 


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