New Post: Conditional formating of a named range

Need to apply conditional formatting to a named range or other range in which the cells or columns in the range are not contiguous.

Below a named range is built from each column in which the value includes the word "DoDAAC." These columns are not necessarily beside one another and I need to know if there are duplicate values in them. I am attempting to do that by creating a conditional format rule that will highlight dups throughout the columns that are not beside one another. Now I know I can do this several ways at creation of the sheet by collecting the values in a list, looking for dups and highlighting them. But the resulting spreadsheet is distributed and updated by users after creation. If they enter a duplicate value I want the cell to turn red.

If the below range "rg" is a contiguous range, no problem the conditional formatting works. However, if there are many ranges in "rg" like "I:I,K:K,M:M" which can be the case in a named range then only the first range has the formatting applied.


'this will work fine if the range "rg" is equal to a normal contiguous range
rg.AddConditionalFormat().WhenIsDuplicate().Fill.SetBackgroundColor(cxl.XLColor.BabyPink).Font.SetFontColor(cxl.XLColor.Red)


But if I create a non-contiguous range, like below, the formatting only gets applied to the 1st range in the list of ranges included in the named range.


'Create a named range in the worksheet with all the DoDAAC columns

    For Each C As cxl.IXLCell In .Row(1).CellsUsed
        If C.Value.ToString Like "*DoDAAC*" Or _
           C.Value.ToString Like "*DoDAAC*" Or _
           C.Value.ToString Like "*DoDAAC*" Then
            C.WorksheetColumn.AddToNamed("DoDAACs", ClosedXML.Excel.XLScope.Workbook)
        End If
    Next

'make a range object equl to the named range in the worksheet
Dim nr = wkb.Range("DoDAACs")

'Here I attempt to apply the formatting to the named range and it only get applied to the first range in the ranges of the named range.
nr.AddConditionalFormat().WhenIsDuplicate().Fill.SetBackgroundColor(cxl.XLColor.BabyPink).Font.SetFontColor(cxl.XLColor.Red)



It wont work to cycle thru all the ranges and apply the formatting separately as I'm checking for duplicate across all the columns.