How to do relative pasting of conditional formatting?

-I have a table with 5 columns and 220 rows.
-I have a conditional format set up in the first row. The fill color of col 2-5 changes based on col 1 value.
It seems I can't paste the first row's conditional formatting to the other 219 rows without having to go back and edit each row's condition to point to it's own first column.
What am I doing wrong??? It's like the pasting of the conditional formatting isn't doing relative pasting of the condition.
Thanks!

Andrew Stewart4 wrote:
Hi twangy-
I am trying achieve what you seem to have accomplished. i.e. changing the colour of a cell/s based on another cell. How did you do this?
Hi Andy,
I suspect twangy hasn't told us the whole story here, as the conditional formatting of a particular cell cannot depend solely on the contents of another cell.
What it can depend on is the value in that other cell compared to the value in the cell to be formatted.
To apply this colour change to a group of cells often requires the use of an auxiliary cell whose purpose is to take on a value whereby the same condition will be either TRUE compared to all cells in the set or FALSE compared to all cells in the set.
The easiest comparison to use for this purpose is 'greater than' or 'less than' as all that's required for the auxiliary cell is to set its value to something just outside the range if values included in the set of cells to format.
Example 1: I have a row of four cells (B2, C2, D2 and E2), and I want them all to turn red if the sum of the values they contain exceeds the value in another cell (G2).
It can't be done directly, but I can set up an auxiliary cell (H2) with an IF statement to create a value that is greater than the value in any of the cells to be formatted when the sum of their values is greater than G2 or a second value which is less than the value in any of the four cells when their sum is less than or equal to the value in G2.
I can then set the same rule for all four cells: (Apply the format when 'my' value is) Less than H2
Formula for H2 in this case:
=IF(SUM(B2:E2)>G2,MAX(B2:E2)+1,MIN(B2:E2)-1)
Example 2: If the value in any of the four cells exceeds the value in G2, apply the formatting to all the cells.
As previous example, but formula for H2 is now:
=IF(OR(B2>G2,C2>G2,D2>G2,E2>G2),MAX(B2:E2)+1,MIN(B2:E2)-1)
Note that the two possible values of H2 are the same in both formulas. All that differs is the comparison with cell G2 that determines which value H2 will have.
Regards,
Barry

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