1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2<helpdocument version="1.0"> 3 4<!--*********************************************************** 5 * 6 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 7 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 8 * distributed with this work for additional information 9 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 10 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 11 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 12 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 13 * 14 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 15 * 16 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 17 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 18 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 19 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 20 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 21 * under the License. 22 * 23 ***********************************************************--> 24 25 26 27 28<meta> 29 <topic id="textscalcguidecellstyle_by_formulaxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 30 <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Assigning Formats by Formula</title> 31 <filename>/text/scalc/guide/cellstyle_by_formula.xhp</filename> 32 </topic> 33 </meta> 34 <body> 35<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3145673"><bookmark_value>formats; assigning by formulas</bookmark_value> 36 <bookmark_value>cell formats; assigning by formulas</bookmark_value> 37 <bookmark_value>STYLE function example</bookmark_value> 38 <bookmark_value>cell styles;assigning by formulas</bookmark_value> 39 <bookmark_value>formulas;assigning cell formats</bookmark_value> 40</bookmark><comment>mw deleted "applying;"</comment> 41<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3145673" role="heading" level="1" l10n="U" 42 oldref="13"><variable id="cellstyle_by_formula"><link href="text/scalc/guide/cellstyle_by_formula.xhp" name="Assigning Formats by Formula">Assigning Formats by Formula</link> 43</variable></paragraph> 44 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150275" role="paragraph" l10n="CHG" oldref="14">The STYLE() function can be added to an existing formula in a cell. For example, together with the CURRENT function, you can color a cell depending on its value. The formula =...+STYLE(IF(CURRENT()>3; "Red"; "Green")) applies the cell style "Red" to cells if the value is greater than 3, otherwise the cell style "Green" is applied.</paragraph> 45 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3151385" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="15">If you would like to apply a formula to all cells in a selected area, you can use the<emph/> 46 <item type="menuitem">Find & Replace</item> dialog.</paragraph> 47 <list type="ordered"> 48 <listitem> 49 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149456" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="16">Select all the desired cells.</paragraph> 50 </listitem> 51 <listitem> 52 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3148797" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="17">Select the menu command <emph>Edit - Find & Replace</emph>.</paragraph> 53 </listitem> 54 <listitem> 55 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150767" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="18">For the <item type="menuitem">Search for</item> term, enter: .<item type="literal">*</item> 56 </paragraph> 57 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153770" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="19">".*" is a regular expression that designates the contents of the current cell.</paragraph> 58 </listitem> 59 <listitem> 60 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153143" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="20">Enter the following formula in the <item type="menuitem">Replace with</item> field: <item type="literal">=&+STYLE(IF(CURRENT()>3;"Red";"Green"))</item> 61 </paragraph> 62 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3146975" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="21">The "&" symbol designates the current contents of the <emph>Search for</emph> field. The line must begin with an equal sign, since it is a formula. It is assumed that the cell styles "Red" and "Green" already exist.</paragraph> 63 </listitem> 64 <listitem> 65 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149262" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="22">Mark the fields <link href="text/shared/01/02100000.xhp" name="Regular expressions"><emph>Regular expressions</emph></link> and <emph>Current selection only</emph>. Click <emph>Find All</emph>.</paragraph> 66 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3144767" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="24">All cells with contents that were included in the selection are now highlighted.</paragraph> 67 </listitem> 68 <listitem> 69 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147127" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="23">Click<emph/> 70 <item type="menuitem">Replace all</item>.</paragraph> 71 </listitem> 72 </list> 73 <section id="relatedtopics"> 74 <embed href="text/scalc/guide/cellstyle_conditional.xhp#cellstyle_conditional"/> 75 <embed href="text/scalc/guide/cellstyle_minusvalue.xhp#cellstyle_minusvalue"/> 76 </section> 77 </body> 78</helpdocument>