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Using calculations in conditional formatting

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Using calculations in conditional formatting

- [Instructor] As its name applies, conditional formatting allows you to dynamically apply different formatting attributes to a layout object under various conditions. For example if you select any field on screen you can either go to format and conditional while you have it selected or you can right-click on that object and in the contextual menu choose conditional formatting. And you see that you have the option to pick one of the dropdown options under value, or you can add one that is a formula. or you can add one that is a formula. And in this case you hit the specify button and you are presented with the specified calculation dialog window and another example of the boulean calculation dialog window. Any time we see a boulean that means we can write a formula that will result in either a true or false statement, a one or a zero, and when true, the thing will happen. In this case it'll actually apply the formatting so for example let's say that we want to make the do since text…

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