Conditional formatting is not applied immediately to a cell in an Excel 2010 worksheet

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Symptoms

Assume that you have an Excel 2010 worksheet that has the Sheet.EnableFormatConditionsCalculation property disabled. When you change a cell that uses conditional formatting in the worksheet, the conditional formatting is not applied immediately to the cell.

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Resolution

To resolve this issue, apply the following hotfix:

2597142 Description of the Excel 2010 hotfix package (x86 Excel-x-none.msp, x64 Excel-x-none.msp): February 28, 2012

Registry key information

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After you install the hotfix package, follow these steps to enable the hotfix:

Click Start, click Run, type regedit in the Open box, and then click OK.
Locate and then select the following registry subkey:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Excel\Options
On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD (32-bit) Value.
Type IgnoreEnableFormatConditionsCalculationOnLoad, and then press ENTER.
In the Details pane, right-click IgnoreEnableFormatConditionsCalculationOnLoad, and then click Modify.
In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK.
Exit Registry Editor.