Excel nested conditional formatting with indirect references

Question

I am working on a MS Excel 2010 spreadsheet where the users want to have some combined conditional formatting. Individually the functions I want to apply are working correctly, i.e this condition formula works:

= INDIRECT( ADDRESS( IF( ISEVEN( ROW() ), ROW() - 1, ROW() ), 22) ) = "6 Monthly"

As does this:

= OR( COLUMN() = 25, COLUMN() = 28)

But combining the formulae fails to apply any format. No error is returned, but the highlighted area is unaffected on applying the condition:

AND( INDIRECT(ADDRESS(IF(ISEVEN(ROW()), ROW() - 1, ROW()), 22)) = "3 Monthly", OR( COLUMN() = 25, COLUMN() = 28) )

If I want the cells where both conditions are met to be highlighted, what should I enter as the formula?

Answer 1

This works for me:

=(INDIRECT(ADDRESS(IF(ISEVEN(ROW()),ROW()-1,ROW()),22))="3 Monthly")*(OR(COLUMN()=25, COLUMN()=28))

Answer 2

Your conditional formatting formulas seem overly complex to me

Select Y11:Y48 and then hold down CTRL key and also select AB11:AB48 and apply the conditional formatting formula

=$V11="3 Monthly"

Format as required

That will highlight the column Y and AB cells in every row where col V = "3 Monthly" - isn't that the requirement?

Answer 3

Use IF:

=IF(INDIRECT(ADDRESS(IF(ISEVEN(ROW()),ROW()-1, ROW()),22))="3 Monthly",OR(COLUMN()=25,COLUMN()=28),0)

Hope this helps.