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There is no easy way in Excel to apply conditional formatting like you are describing without creating a VBA macro to do the checking of the cell content to see if it matches your pattern. &nbsp;Would it be acceptable to create a VBA procedure that you could use to do this, or is adding VBA to your workbook not an option?<br />
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There is no easy way in Excel to apply conditional formatting like you are describing without creating a VBA macro to do the checking of the cell content to see if it matches your pattern.  Would it be acceptable to create a VBA procedure that you could use to do this, or is adding VBA to your workbook not an option?



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hmm... excel does have conditional formatting<br />
<a href="https://support.office.com/en-us/article/use-formulas-with-conditional-formatting-fed60dfa-1d3f-4e13-9ecb-f1951ff89d7f" rel="ugc">https://support.office.com/en-us/article/use-formulas-with-conditional-formatting-fed60dfa-1d3f-4e13-9ecb-f1951ff89d7f</a>
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hmm... excel does have conditional formatting
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/use-formulas-with-conditional-formatting-fed60dfa-1d3f-4e13-9ecb-f1951ff89d7f [https://support.office.com/en-us/article/use-formulas-with-conditional-formatting-fed60dfa-1d3f-4e13-9ecb-f1951ff89d7f]

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Hi There, how to write a regex expression to identify string match: <br />
for ex: in my entire workbook it should highlight the summary column, &nbsp;if it contains any string length greater than 6 digits or 8 digit. for ex: if summary column has 6 digit number it should highlight that row, if it has only 8 digit even then it should be highlighted, if it has both 6 and 8 digit it should get highlighted:<br />
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attached is the sample<br />
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Book1.xlsx

Hi There, how to write a regex expression to identify string match: 
for ex: in my entire workbook it should highlight the summary column,  if it contains any string length greater than 6 digits or 8 digit. for ex: if summary column has 6 digit number it should highlight that row, if it has only 8 digit even then it should be highlighted, if it has both 6 and 8 digit it should get highlighted:

attached is the sample

Regex expression

A regular expression ("regex") is a sequence of characters that define a search pattern, mainly for use in pattern matching with strings, or string matching, i.e. "find and replace"-like operations. Regular expression processors are found in several search engines, search and replace dialogs of several word processors and text editors, and in the command lines of text processing utilities, such as sed and AWK. Many programming languages provide regular expression capabilities, some built-in, for example Perl, JavaScript, Ruby, AWK, and Tcl, and others via a standard library, for example .NET languages, Java, Python and C++ (since C++11). Most other languages offer regular expressions via a library.