Paste Conditional Format rule wipes out existing formula... & vice versa.

As far as I can see there is no way to copy an already established conditional formatting rule onto a cell that already has a formula entered without wiping out the formula. And when you set the formatting rule first and then paste in the formula, it wipes out the conditional formatting rule.
Surely this is not too much to ask -- or am I missing something here?

Badunit, thank you for the info about Paste and Match Style. That works very nicely. Interestingly, I don't believe the specific use of the command for this purpose is documented in the manual, though it certainly should be.
Yvan, I have read everything the manual has to say about conditional formatting three or four times over, and yes, I know that the function is available via the Inspector as well as under the Format menu.
You are mistaken, however regarding copy and paste.
Conditional formatting is indeed transferrable via copy and paste, as you will find if you try it, and as is mentioned in the manual at the bottom of page 82. And pasting a function into a cell with conditional formatting deletes that formatting. So Badunit's suggestion is the only solution to avoid having to re-enter either the formula (very large) or the formatting rules. In this instance there were 14 rules in force, and re-entering them was tedious.
A little less rushing to judgement - and a little more courtesy, please.

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HT4648 So if you import a numbers document from a mac to iPad which has a conditional format rule such as a cell with a score between 1-10 fills with the colour black will still work on the iPad? Not being able to edit it just means you can't change this

I want to use numbers on my iPad mini for a team I coach. I have a spreadsheet on my mac I want to import onto the iPad mini for players to enter in wellness ratings. On this spreadsheet (on the mac) I have a conditioning formatting rule that when a player enters in their numbers the cells fill with black so others can't see their entries (to maintain privacy). Will this function import across onto iPad numbers? From the discussion I saw on this site it only partly answers my question stating "it cannot be edited" does this mean the conditional formatting rule cannot be changed and therefore will still work or the whole spreadsheet can't be edited and you can only view the spreadsheet and make no new entries to it?

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Is it possible to save a set of conditional format rules in Numbers?

I am a doctor, and I have a call schedule that comes out each month (in an Excel spreadsheet). So, I want to open up the spreadsheet in Numbers and have each instance of my name (Smith) highlighted, by setting the background of the cell to a fluorescent yellow. This is easy to do by using conditional formatting, and it works well.
My problem is that each time I want to use the same conditional formatting rule, I have to manually set it up. I would like to be able to save the 'rule', ideally linked to a toolbar button, so that I can run this conditional formatting on any Numbers spreadsheet with one (or two) click(s).
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Create a table with the conditional rules then use Format > Advanced > Capture Table
Each time you will create a new table from the captured table it will have all the source's attributes.
Of course, you must save in the native Numbers format.
If you export as Excel most of these settings will be lost.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE vendredi 9 janvier 2009 19:44:05)

How do you copy a conditional format rule down successive rows in a Numbers spreadsheet, maintaining continuity between two values within the same row?

I have a spreadsheet with multiple rows and I want to copy a conditional format pattern on each row.
e.g.
Condition: row 1/col A (A1) = row 1/col BC (BC1). Conditional Format: Italic, Fill Green. Now I want to copy that to succeeding rows in my spreadsheet.
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Hi Eugene,
This is the designed behaviour in Numbers. To register your desire for a change, Provide Numbers Feedback, using the link in the Numbers menu (in Numbers), or using the link in this message. Make a Feature Enhancement request.
There is a bit of shortcut in editing the cell references in the rules you have now:
Select all of the cells that will contain this rule.
Set up the rule for the first (A1), using BC1 as the cell reference.
Set up your table (hide columns) so that you can see both columns (A and BC ) while the Conditional format rules dialogue is open.
Starting at A2, use this loop:
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-Repeat.
An even shorter method is to add a column before or after column A, use a formula to test if A1=BC1, etc. (which will increment as you fill down), then set the conditional rule for that columns cells to
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Regards,
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Copying formatting from conditional formatting without the rules

I tend to use a lot of conditional formatting in my spreadsheets. Unfortunately, this leads to two problems:
1) I need more rules than are allowed (this seems to be related to the height of my screen... probably because the dialog box doesn't have a scrollbar)
2) This really, really slows things down, especially when combined with cell references, and particularly when I'm trying to rearrange cells (as far as I can see Numbers has a tendency to freeze and/or blank out the table I'm working on)
The easiest way I can see out of my predicament would be to somehow remove the conditional formatting rules while keeping the actual formatting... like copy-and-pasting values instead of the actual cells (with intact formulae). Is this possible? And if possible, how would I go about doing it?
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Up to 15 rules can be set for conditional formating of a cell.
1)
Considering that the usual purpose of conditional formatting is to flag 'unusual' values, and to make the 'condition' instantly visible and recognizable, that seems an over generous number. If a cell or group of cells on your table 'needs' more than 15 possible formats (the base format and 15 others based on rules), perhaps what's needed is a re-thinking of why that many are needed, and whether having that many formats adequately answers that 'why'.
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2)
Not surprising. Numbers recalculates the entire table each time a value in the table is changed. That calculation includes through each list of conditional formatting rules until a match is found (or the end of the list is reached), and includes setting the new format for each affected cell.
3)
Not that I'm aware of. The base format of the cell may be copied (option-command-C) and pasted elsewhere (option-command-V), and that pair of operations will include any conditional format rules that had been set for the original cell.
But conditional formatting is just that—a set of rules that applies a set of attributes to a cell when a specific condition is met. The applied format exists only when the condition is met, and can't be copied except by copying the rule—actually the whole set of rules for that cell—which puts you no further ahead.
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I created a conditional format on a cell (B3) that compares its value to the value of a cell above it (B2).
If I 'Copy Style' and paste that style into the cell beside it (C3), the conditional formatting still refers to B2. If I want to do this for a whole row of cells then I have to manually edit the cell reference in the conditional formatting for each cell.
Anyone else seen this behaviour? It makes me think of going back to Excel.

Don't know if you'd consider this a 'workaround' or simply a way to do what the OP asks with as little fuss as possible.
I created a conditional format on a cell (B3) that compares its value to the value of a cell above it (B2).
If I 'Copy Style' and paste that style into the cell beside it (C3), the conditional formatting still refers to B2...
The desire is to have each cell in row 3 formatted depending on a comparison with the cell directly above it. If each comparison is the same (eg, Equal to), and the 'true' action for each is the same (eg. Fill with yellow), the following will save some effort:
Select the whole row, B3:G3 (or further).
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Equal to | B2
And the action for Fill yellow.
Click Done.
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Repeat these three steps:
Click on the B2 reference in the dialogue.
Click on cell C2 in the table.
Press the right arrow to move the selection to D3.
Click on the B2 reference in the dialogue.
Click on cell D2 in the table.
Press the right arrow to move the selection to E3.
etc.
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I have a spreadsheet for home accounts/debts etc, and I like to put forward calculations in columns so I can get an idea of how long it will take to pay off debts. These forward calculations are formulas based on APRs etc, and I manually format them in grey italics. When a bill comes in with the actual amount on it, that formula gets replaced with the bill amount, and I switch the format to black plain text so I can see it's an actual value.
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No.
Conditional format rules depend on comparing the value contained in the cell, and pay no attention to how that value got there.
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As indicated in column A. the values in B2 and B3 are entered numbers, those in B4 and B5 are calculated. Column B is formatted to DISPLAY these numbers as Currency, with the usual two decimal places.
Column C uses the formula =B to transfer the actual values in column B. Formatting is set to automatic.
Column D uses the formula =ROUND(B,2) which rounds the values in column B to two decimal places. Formatting is set to automatic, so what is shown is the actual value.
The conditional formatting rule, shown for cell B5, compares the actual value in column B with its rounded counterpart in column D. If they are the same, the assumption (wrong, in this case) is that the value was entered, and the rule applies bold style to the text and a light grey fill to the cell. If they are different, no change is made.
Note that there's some tedium involved in setting this up, as the rule for each cell uses a different comparison cell, and these must be set (or reset) individually.
Regards,
Barry

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