This article explains how to highlight in Excel. Additional instructions cover creating a custom highlight style. Instructions apply to Excel 2019, 2016, and Excel for Microsoft 365.
How to Highlight the Active Row in Microsoft Excel
Choosing to highlight cells in Excel can be a great way to make data or words stand out or to improve readability in a file with a lot of information. You can select both cells and text to highlight in Excel, and you can also customize the colors to suit your needs. Here's how to highlight in Excel.
Spreadsheet cells are the boxes that contain text in a Microsoft Excel document, although many of them are also completely empty. Both empty and filled Excel cells can be customized in a number of ways, including giving them a colored highlight.
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