I want conditional formatting to change the cell color of a selected range when the text is exactly one of two possibilities. I have a function which concatenates three cells of text together, and this function is applied to a column. When a root word is typed in the vertical column (e.g. ma and pa in picture), a defined affix and auxiliary are concatenated together in a specified order. This has the side effect of creating a column of auxiliary-affix combinations which I do not want.
One solution is to use conditional formatting to change the text and cell color to white. Another solution would be editing the formula somehow to give a blank result if no root word is typed. I'm not too familiar with spreadsheet formula syntax, and that's why I am here.
What is the best way to 'blur out' the text which does not contain the root word? I want to apply this solution to hundreds of cells, so I need an efficient solution. Thanks in advance!
Here is my concatenation formula for one cell:
=Ifs( $B$9 & $B$10="Pre-verb Auxiliary"&"Prefixes", $C$9 & $C$10 & B12, $B$9 & $B$10="Post-verb Auxiliary"&"Prefixes", $C$10 & B12 & $C$9, $B$9 & $B$10="Pre-verb Auxiliary"&"Suffixes", $C$9 & B12 & $C$10, $B$9 & $B$10="Post-verb Auxiliary"&"Suffixes", B12 & $C$10 & $C$9 )