conditional formatting

Can anyone help with this.

I need the following to happen.

I am trying to find out how to do the following

I have two coloums c one contains the information the other is a valadation list box. when i select from the list box I want colum c to high light the name i select from the list box but but in coloum c if the engineer is not it needs to say engineer not avalable select other engineer or contact branch.

hope this make sense

2nd issue
also how to i get it to do the following in forumale.

I highlight a selection of cells and say that if this coloum contains any of these words highligh red. this is what i have tried. =$D$13:$D$26=Holiday,Vacent Area,Sick,BDE Engineer

Hi Joona - I didn't get your first question.
for 2nd one, just select the range of cells and go to conditional formatting>> highlight cell Rules>>Equals ----- apply this multiple time(depending upon how many items you want to search and hilight red)