Conditional formatting the result of the formula in a cell

I created the following spreadsheet with formulas in column A calculating their values from B and C.  I used =COUNTIF(A:A,A1)>1 as my conditional formatting statement which looks for duplicate entries.  It seems to work fine as if it were looking at the formulas none of the cells would be highlighted because none are dups.  Can you post the formulas that create values as well as the formula you use for your conditional formatting?
condformat.xlsx

2010 Excel:

Conditional formatting formula:
make cell background pink and font red if =$N9<TODAY()

Formatting Applies To Cells:
$N$9:$N$330

N9:N330 contains the formula:
=+IF(LEFT(BDP($G9 &" Corp"&" cusip",N$8),4)="#N/A","-",BDP($G9 &" Corp"&" cusip",N$8))

so if the above formula results in a date that is less than today's date (or a cells that displays a given date), then highlight the cell background with pink and font red.

What condition are you using?

Conditional formatting looks at the value in the cell whether it's been manually entered or is the result of a formula.

Try this

=DATEVALUE($N9<TODAY())

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What exactly does the formula in N9 return?

Is it a 'real' date or text that appears to be a date?

i am using the last option "Use a formula to determine which cells to format"

also, if I overwrite the formula in the cell with an actual date, the conditional formula works...when I put back the "=+IF(LEFT(BDP($G9 &" Corp"&" cusip",N$8),4)="#N/A","-",BDP($G9 &" Corp"&" cusip",N$8))" formula, it stops working.

the formula in N9 returns a settlement date...pulls the settlement date from Bloomberg...its works through the Bloomberg Excel add-in

mcsween

If that's the case, and I think it is, the formula you posted earlier should work - with a minor change.

=DATEVALUE($N9)<TODAY()

Thanks, That was the issue, a data type mismatch.