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How to add border to cells by using If statement in Excel?

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To add border around cells may be easy for most of Excel users, but how about adding border to cells by using IF function? In this article, I introduce the way to add border to cells by IF statement in Excel.
add border by conditonal formatting

Add border to cells by IF function

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To add border to cells by IF statement, you can apply the powerful Conditional Formatting feature, and then add the IF function to its rule.

For example, here I have a range of cells, I want to add border to the cell if it is greater than 450.

1. Select the range you want to use, and click Home > Conditional Formatting > New Rule. See screenshot:
click Home > Conditional Formatting > New Rule

2. Then in the New Formatting Rule dialog, choose Use a formula to determine which cells to format, and type this formula =$B2>450 into the Format values where this formula is true textbox. See screenshot:
specify options in the dialog box

In the formula B2 is the first cell of the range you want to add border by If function.

3. Click Format to open Format Cells dialog, click Border tab, and then specify the border style as you need. See screenshot:
click Border tab, and then specify the border style

4. Click OK > OK to close dialogs. Now if the cell is greater than 450, the cell will be added border around.
the cell will be added border around based on the specific criteria

Note: If you want to border cells if they are equal to a specific text, such as Apple, you can type this formula =$E2="Apple" to the Format values where this formula is true textbox.
set options to border cells if they are equal to a specific text

Tip.If you just want to border cells with a specific conditoon, you can try to apply Kutools for Excel's Select Specific Cells utility to select the cells by criteria, and then add border by Format Cells function as shown in the following screenshot. It’s full function without limitation in 30 days, please download and have a free trial now.
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