Conditional Formatting - More Than 2 Conditions

Using LO 7.4.6.2. I may have missed something, but as I interpret the guidance for conditional formatting the choice is simply between one condition or another, eg greater/lesser. Maybe it is explained that way to make the principle simple to understand, but I want to format cells where there are 3 possible ranges of numbers (blood pressure readings, as it happens). Can anyone point me to the guidance for setting this up?

What you count as 2 conditions should better be seen as one (e.g GreaterThan) condition with its 2 possible results True and False (met, not met).
Only in rare cases you may need/want to create an extra condition for the opposite of a first one.
Using ConditionaFormat the listed conditons are evaluated top down, and the first one answering True gets its associated style applied and ends the sequence of evaluations.

An old file of mine as an example.

Blood pressure table.ods (26,1 KB)

[This was sketched as a comment, but then changed to a “solution”.
Site admins: Please stop silly checks.]

First check for p<130 and assign the cellStyleGreen to the case that it’s met.
Then add a condition p<160 assigning an appropriate cellStyle, and you may also add a third condition like p>=160 with its style.

You probably also want to play with the “all cells” variants of CF.

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And I thought I was constantly pushing the wrong thing. :slightly_smiling_face:

Jeff, I just had the same problem and just solved it. In my case its not bloodpressure but dates and my reference cells are on different sheets. I use 3 conditions to show the cell background in green, orange or red.
Codition1, Date is higher than: IF(TODAY()>$Sheet8.$B$3)
Condition2 Date is between two dates: AND((TODAY()>$Sheet8.$B$3);(TODAY()<($Sheet8.$B$3+5)))
Condition3 Date is more than today +5: IF(TODAY()>($Sheet8.$B$3+5))
Maybe not the most elegant but it works.