Hi Gary,

Unfortunately it didn't work for Excel 2007, I still don't see the green highlight. It works OK for Excel 2003.

>>>Thanks a lot for your response. I put TOTAL in the first column at the very bottom. The mentioned code works fine in Excel 2003, >>but does nothing in Excel 2007.
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>>>How exactly do you suggest me to adjust it?
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>Naomi,
>I've not used xlLastCell before, but as far as I can see in 2007 at least it is only return a selection to the last cell that has a value assigned, therefore in an empty column it only selects and assigns the FormatCondition to cell A1.
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>If you change your selection line as below it seems to work fine.
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>*!*loExcel.RANGE([A1], loExcel.SELECTION.SpecialCells(xlLastCell)).SELECT
>loExcel.Columns("A:A").SELECT
>loExcel.SELECTION.FormatConditions.DELETE
>loExcel.SELECTION.FormatConditions.ADD(xlExpression,, '=UPPER(Left($A1,5))="TOTAL"')
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>WITH loExcel.SELECTION.FormatConditions(1)
>.FONT.Bold = .T.
> .Interior.ColorIndex = 4
>ENDWITH
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>

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>Regards
>
>Gary.