I am working on a long list of temporary employees hired with "termination" dates. These dates vary. I want a reminder set to 5 days before the listed "term" date so it alerts me with a reminder. I have seen many different formulas and they work.
The problem I'm having is that there is a long list and that is a "continuing" list...so there are many blank rows. Currently I am using both conditional formatting to highlight it and I'm using the IF formula:
=IF(I2<TODAY()+5,"REMINDER","")
The problem is that it is filling in REMINDER for all of my "empty/blank" rows. I do not want it to appear other than where the data is, but I don't want to have to remember to carry the formula down. So right now I have about 22/23 rows that are filled. I want to expand my spreadsheet out to about 600 rows. But everything past the 23 rows is showing REMINDER even though there is no data in those rows. Is there something I can do to have it carry through the 600 rows, but not put in the reminder until there is data in there telling it to send a reminder? I'm using a MAC with Excel 2017. Thank you for any information.
The problem I'm having is that there is a long list and that is a "continuing" list...so there are many blank rows. Currently I am using both conditional formatting to highlight it and I'm using the IF formula:
=IF(I2<TODAY()+5,"REMINDER","")
The problem is that it is filling in REMINDER for all of my "empty/blank" rows. I do not want it to appear other than where the data is, but I don't want to have to remember to carry the formula down. So right now I have about 22/23 rows that are filled. I want to expand my spreadsheet out to about 600 rows. But everything past the 23 rows is showing REMINDER even though there is no data in those rows. Is there something I can do to have it carry through the 600 rows, but not put in the reminder until there is data in there telling it to send a reminder? I'm using a MAC with Excel 2017. Thank you for any information.