Conditional formating if the cell contains any date

Hi,
In my excel sheet i have one column containing only date (US format) or else they are blank. I want to format the cells containing date to Red color. How do i do it
Please help

If you mean the font colour, just format the cells to have red font.
So I guess you mean interior colour.
You haven't said which version of Excel - it always helps.
For Excel 2003, for example, select the cells then
Format > Conditional Formatting > Cell Value Is > Greater Than: 0 > Format > Patterns > Red
For Excel 2007 or 2010, Home > Conditional Formatting > Highlight Cells Rules > Greater Than > 0 with Light red fill
Bill Manville. Excel MVP, Oxford, England. www.manville.org.uk

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Conditional formatting of a cell depends on the contents of that individual cell, compared with another value, so no.
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