Google Docs Spreadsheet formatting.

I’m no expert on spreadsheets, but in Excel I can format a cell B1 to be blue if cell A1 “is not empty”. I can’t seem to do this using conditional formatting in google docs, I cant import the spreadsheet as it wipes some of the formatting and I am stuck. Help me?

No help whatsoever but excel does seem to be more feature rich for this kinda thing.

Do you have a Hotmail /outlook webmail account?
You can open spreadsheets in that like a kind of excel ‘lite’?

https://support.google.com/docs/answer/78413

Any particular reason that the answer isn’t “use Excel, then”?

There is, the collaboration that I have been hoiked into agaisnt my will are using google docs and it ain’t my rodeo.

You need a a custom formula, bottom option

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I can’t seem to do this using conditional formatting in google docs

You definitely can in sheets.