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Conditional Formatting on Sheet and Row Level

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  • Scott McQuat
    Scott McQuat ✭✭
    edited 07/24/24

    There are feature requests for this going back to 2020. Why is this taking so long.

  • KMeyer
    KMeyer ✭✭✭
    edited 07/24/24

    I agree with all the comments that point to the need for a better and more scalable approach to this.

  • Evan I
    Evan I ✭✭
    edited 07/24/24

    Allow conditional formatting to work like it does in excel where i can just select the columns/rows that I want to apply conditional formatting for and then set up the rules. The current method of setting it up by column is very challenging for large sheets with multiple columns and different conditional formatting.

    Additionally, allow the conditional formatting from Excel to be imported in to SmartSheet.

  • Kevin Harrison
    edited 07/24/24

    I would very much like to see this much requested feature implemented too.

    Here I am this evening creating a Training Matrix for 18 staff with 18 columns (staff names) with 120 Training aspects on the rows and 4 levels of competency for each cell

    So at the moment, instead of 4 rules to give a cell value or 1,2,3 or 4 a different colour I will be faced with 18 x 4 rules = 72 rules - which I don't think I can face doing!

    I'd like to see Conditional Formatting being much more flexible please

    Thank you

  • IrisT
    IrisT ✭✭
    edited 07/24/24

    I'd like to boost this post as I'm currently facing a 35x35 dependency grid formatting exercise with each 3 different formats. I was hoping to find a simple solution here but unfortunately I found this post :) ... so I might continue to test my sanity in building the column formats knowing that I'm not alone! If there is a a better way to push this into the development queue please let me know. Thanks, Iris


  • Ray Lindstrom
    Ray Lindstrom ✭✭✭✭✭✭
    edited 07/24/24

    Everybody who reads this thread and agrees on needing this functionality should go to the original post in the thread and up-vote it. The more votes it gets, the more weight it's given when the Smartsheet development planning occurs.

  • Caz Taylor
    Caz Taylor ✭✭
    edited 07/24/24

    Please can we have a way to apply formatting to multiple columns at the same time (or more quickly and easier than having to do each one individually when it is the same rule being applied).

  • David Dolch
    David Dolch ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited 07/24/24

    I would like to bump this requests as well.

    I have sheets where I have a need to highlight the entire column based on the value in each row. In specific, we have Week Ending columns, with the week ending date in Row 1.

    I want to highlight an entire column when the value in Row 1 matches the current week ending.

    This has come up multiple times, and I can never find a solution other than to tell my users "Smartsheet cannot do that".

    While we are on the subject of row and columns not having the same treatment. Why can we freeze columns, but cannot freeze rows. Again my solution is to say "Smartsheet cannot do that"

  • hjan11
    hjan11 ✭✭

    Similar to excel, allow conditional formatting for a single cell that does not apply to the entire column.

  • Imran Akhthar
    Imran Akhthar ✭✭
    edited 07/24/24

    Dear Smartsheet team,

    We have been waiting for this basic feature available in other tools (creating conditional formatting) for a series of Columns.


    This idea was provided in the year 2021, we are now in 2024, yet we don't see this feature. We can see Smartsheet as a powerful tool, if we can fill this gap/feature.


    Please can I get a response to this Idea

  • Erik Jensen
    Erik Jensen ✭✭✭✭
    edited 07/24/24

    Just making a note here to wish and pray that this gets implemented asap. Cloning and making dozens of conditional formatting rules for every column is KILLING ME. Thanks!

  • Caroline Elliott
    Caroline Elliott ✭✭✭✭
    edited 07/24/24

    Having this feature available would save so much time and effort. I currently get put off using conditional formatting because I don't have the time to do the same thing over and over again and then have to redo it all if we decide to rename the columns.

  • Jamie Koch
    Jamie Koch ✭✭✭
    edited 07/24/24

    I would love to have the ability to add conditional formatting to an entire sheet or multiple columns at once. I agree with everything mentioned above. I have sheets with a TON of rules that are exactly the same thing over and over. Even with the cloning ability, it's time consuming and tedious to set these up.