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