yogi_Apply Conditional Formatting To Cells Of Column A For Blue And Bluish -- sort of like using wildcard with Blu

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Yogi Anand, D.Eng, P.E.      ANAND Enterprises LLC -- Rochester Hills MI  www.energyefficientbuild.com  Mar-03-2014

Updated Sep-17-2016

post by rossmcm (https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/docs/spreadsheets/VX_C5cek2Bk)
Syntax for conditional formatting expressions in the new sheets

I'm using the new sheets and want to add conditional formatting with a custom formula to a cell.  Can anyone point me at reference docs for the syntax of these expressions?

As an example, here's some of my experiments 

Feel free to have a play.

 TIA 

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