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Excel Conditional formatting

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how do you use conditional formatting for following Which has two criteria?

If Column U =A and Column W = 533 I want the cell to turn light red
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Joe Howard
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Use this formula for the rule
=AND($U1="A",$W1="533")
ca1358

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I tried all kinds of things and nothing is working.  Here is a screen shot of it.
ExcelConditionalFormatingdocx.docx
Joe Howard
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Sorry my bad, this works:
=AND(IF($U1="A",TRUE,FALSE),IF($W1=533,TRUE,FALSE))

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Joe Howard
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Or this:
=AND($U1="A",$W1=533)

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Still no luck including a file
TestConditionalFormatting.xls
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ca1358

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How do you make it Highlight only column U and Column W and not Column V included

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Thank you!

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