No. Conditional formatting can't change the content of a cell, simply its attributes. Theoretically, you could have the word 'complete' in E223 with white text and a white background, and then put on a black text conditional format to make it visible. But then again, CF won't work based on a cell change, merely on its contents. It won't distinguish between a value that's never been changed and one that was changed 10 minutes ago. Unless you want to get involved in VBA and worksheet change events, I don't think there's a way of doing this. Ray ------------------------------------ GR Business Process Solutions Ray Blake Head of Software Design ray@xxxxxxxxx Braedon Newell Road Hemel Hempstead Herts HP3 9PD tel: 01442 396518 fax: 01442 389353 www.grbps.com ------------------------------------ -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott-Johnson, Tiffani D. Sent: 16 August 2004 22:03 To: Formula help (E-mail) Subject: [mso] IF the date changes in excel show as complete If I have a date in Column D, is there any conditional formatting I can do that would say this: If the date in D223 is changed write the word complete in E223? I would like the information in E223 to clear at the new year and be blank again. Thank you, ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************