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Automatically Change Fill Color On Certain Cells Depending On Color Of Specific Cell

Hi everyone,

I have a tedious task of highlighting and changing the fill color of certain cells. There is a specific pattern that needs to be changed everytime.

Since the color is always consistant throughout the certain cells, I would like to make 1 cell be the master cell and every other cell in my pattern copy the color fill of the master.
Therefor if I change the color of the master cell, every other cell in the pattern would automatically change itself to the same fill color.

Would there be a general solution to this with an equation or would it involve writing a macro for it.


Thanks in advance


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