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Google Sheets: Conditional Formatting with Custom Formula

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Google Sheets – Conditional Formatting

Conditional formatting in Google Sheets is a powerful and useful tool to change fonts and backgrounds based on certain rules.

This tutorial assumes that you already have a basic knowledge of Conditional Formatting but would like to uncover the mysteries of the Custom Formula option.

In this post, I will guide you through the steps to build your own custom formulas in oder to:

  1. Apply Conditional Formatting across a whole range based on a value in one or two columns.
    1. Example 1: Conditional Formatting a Whole Range Based on One Column’s Cell Values.
    2. Example 2: Conditional Formatting a Whole Range Based on Selected Values and Formulas.
    3. Example 3: Conditional Formatting a Whole Range Based on Multiple Column Values.
  2. Apply Conditional Formatting across one column based on values in other columns.
    1. Example 4: Conditional Formatting of a single range Based on Another Column Value.
    2. Example 5: Conditional Format a single column range based on a value in another column – Multiple times.
    3. Example 6: Conditional Formatting a Single Column Based on Two Values.

Throughout the examples, we’ll look at various aspects of using Custom Formula to match, use formula functions and apply multiple conditions.

Before we hit the examples, let’s briefly go over accessing the Custom Formula in Google Sheet’s Conditional Formatting.

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Google Sheets – Remove The Lowest Grade for Each Student on a Course

Google Sheets – MIN, FILTER, INDEX, MATCH, SUM, COUNTIF

In the region of the world that I work in, it is a pretty common occurrence for university courses to run weekly assessment. At the end of the course, all the weekly assessment is then added together minus the lowest piece of assessment.

For lecturers with small course sizes, this is a pretty simple task that you could simply eyeball if you have a small enough group, but what if your course runs into the thousands with half a dozen tests to choose from. Eyeballing is just not going to do it.

Recently I was asked to do the same thing for the program that I manage. Over an 8 week term, we run 7 assessment at the end of each week for our students.  My job was to find the lowest grade out of the 7 assessment and drop it, taking note of the assessment unit that I dropped for each student. 

I use Google Sheets for this purpose for its ease of use and sharability.

This is an example dataset of the 7 assessment (in this case, weekly tests) in Google Sheets. We need to remove the lowest grade from each student. As you can see not all students have their lowest grade in the same Unit test. 

List of 7 grades for each student - Google Sheets

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