Excel: Conditional Formatting (Highlighting) Values Based on Another Worksheet
I have a workbook that has two worksheets.
The first worksheet is simply a list of the first 78,498 prime numbers in a single column, A1-A78498.
The second worksheet has a grid of numbers from 1 to n.
The goal is to highlight the cells with prime numbers in the grid by referencing the prime number values in the other worksheet. Is this possible, and if so, how?
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I have named the column with my prime numbers "PRIMES1T".
I would like the formula to work for the entire worksheet, regardless of size, but my excel-fu is extremely weak. If at all possible, I would like to be able to enter the formula in the dialog box for conditional formatting (as below):
I have tried =NOT(ISNA(MATCH(A:Z,PRIMES1T,0)
(only A-Z, but have to start somewhere) with no luck.
in conditional formatting, to reference a range on another worksheet (or workbook) you need to use a named range
Assuming you name your prime numbers range rPrimes
then the conditional format formula would be (for cell A1)
=NOT(ISNA(MATCH(A1,rPrimes)))