Conditional formatting: using row() inside indirect() inside and() doesn't work. What am I doing wrong?

Question

Say I have set a value of 55 on cell B2.

If it\'s value is 55, the cell\'s background color should be green. So I created a new rule using a formula by selecting \"U

Answer 1

The behavior you faced looks like a bug, here are some forum links, where people describe exactly the same problem: link1,link2.

In one of those topics you can read that if you enclose your CF formula with ISERROR, it returns (for unknown reason) True. Same formula entered in a cell works perfectly fine.

The easiest solution in your case is to replace:

=AND(condition1,condition2)

With equivalent:

=(condition1)*(condition2)

The other workaround shown in one of the linked threads is to replace:

INDIRECT("B" & row())

With its equivalent:

INDEX($B:$B,ROW())

Both solutions work fine in conditional formatting rule.