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I need help understanding how the MIN formula mixes with conditional formatting, cause I can't wrap my head around it.

Here's specific situation: enter image description here

I've successfully got formatting for minimum across just the row (bold, blue) -- it uses the strange "Is equal to" with =min(55:55) .

Anyway, now I also want the minimum across all those rows to be red fill. Shown in image are a bunch of erroneously filled numbers. In this case just the cell H64, with value 54, should be filled red.

I've tried different variations of "Is equal to" , "Less than or equal to" =min(F54:M67) , to no avail.

How to get minimum value across multiple rows to be conditionally formatted?

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    Does this answer your question? Conditionally formatting the minimum value in a row
    – Tedinoz
    Jun 16, 2021 at 2:26
  • @Tedinoz Not a duplicate: min in rectangular range vs. min in row, use compare vs. use custom formula.
    – doubleunary
    Jun 16, 2021 at 5:20
  • @doubleunary Thank you. You're absolutely right. I misread the question :(
    – Tedinoz
    Jun 16, 2021 at 6:05
  • @Tedinoz, I squeaked by previously and managed to get a relative minimum coloring going for a single row. I guess I wanted this behavior previously, cause it was easier to to have it auto-color subsequent rows, as long as the formatted range was big enough. Now, for this current question, I absolutely did need the absolute anchors, and that helps explain!
    – icy
    Jun 16, 2021 at 20:21
  • @icy I find it disappointing that the conditional formatting documentation doesn't deal with the various permutations of cell references. Even when one has a very good understanding of absolute/relative referencing, the implications for conditional formatting are far from intuitive.
    – Tedinoz
    Jun 16, 2021 at 23:41

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Use Is equal to =min($F$54:$M$67).

See absolute and relative references.

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  • Regarding the explanation of cell references, from How do I write a good answer? "Links to external resources are encouraged, but... always quote the most relevant part of an important link, in case the external resource is unreachable or goes permanently offline."
    – Tedinoz
    Jun 16, 2021 at 6:05
  • ty, the absolute ref did it!
    – icy
    Jun 16, 2021 at 20:17

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