{"id":5218,"date":"2026-04-22T08:27:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=5218"},"modified":"2026-04-22T08:27:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:27:57","slug":"google-sheets-colour-whole-row-based-on-column-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=5218","title":{"rendered":"Google Sheets – Colour Whole Row based on Column Value"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A useful visualisation on your Google Sheets is where you perhaps have a column for “Yes” or “No” or “Done” or “Not Started” and when this cell changes value, the whole row changes colour to make it obvious that action\/item has been completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can do this as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s say you have a spreadsheet like this, we want the value of “Completed” column Yes or No, to change the colour of the whole row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Highlight the whole set of data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Right click, select “more cell actions” then “Conditional Formatting”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You’ll see some default rule in there, just use this and change it to be as follows for “Yes”:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And then click “Done” and create another for “No” as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Click “Done” and and you are done, your rows should now be coloured based on the value of that column!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You may get a default “if cell empty” rule, you may need to manually remove this if this is the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A useful visualisation on your Google Sheets is where you perhaps have a column for “Yes” or “No” or “Done” or “Not Started” and when this cell changes value, the whole row changes colour to make it obvious that action\/item has been completed. You can do this as follows: Let’s say you have a spreadsheet … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5224,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218\/revisions\/5224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}