Excel - Conditional Formatting - insert row

Question

Using Offset or Indirect in \'Applies To\' does not seem to work. Is there any other way to stop conditional formatting from breaking after inserting row/s

Answer 1

My solution to this exact problem was clearing the formatting from the source copy. Steps:

1. Copy source onto clipboard
2. Open new excel document
3. Paste Special, select formula (copies values and formulae and omits formatting)
4. Copy this to clipboard
5. Now you can either paste back to the source before using it or you insert blank rows into the sheet with the conditional formatting (note just inserting rows will not change the range on the conditional formatting rules) and paste the clipboard content into the new rows.

This worked for me using MS Excel 2016