Discover how to highlight active cell in Excel, or otherwise asked as how do I highlight only selected cells in Excel? This tip and trick will also answer how do you highlight the color of selected cells in Excel? It can also answers questions around how to change cell color when cell is clicked or selected in Excel? But can you highlight the active cell in Excel?
Here are the steps outlined in the video.
Conditional Formatting 1) Ctrl + A 2) Home ~ Style ~ Conditional Formatting 3) New Rule 4) Select "Use a formula to determine which cells to format". 5) =AND(COLUMN()=CELL("COL"), ROW()=CELL("ROW")) 6) Format 7) Fill tab. 8) Select red color. 9) OK 10) OK
Animation 1) Right-click sheet. View Code. 2) Select Worksheet 3) Enter these in Worksheet_SelectionChange() Target.Calculate 4) Ctrl+S to save 5) Close Code Editor
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00:00One of my colleagues was asking, how do you highlight a selector cell so that he can clearly see where his cursor is, even if the spreadsheet does not have focus?
00:09So this is how you do it. First, you're going to select the whole dataset table by pressing Ctrl-A, once like this, and then go Home, Style, Conditional Formatting, New Rules.
00:19Over here, you're going to select Use Formula, and this is the formula you'll be using.
00:23Once that's done, go to Format, and then make sure you are selecting Fill Tab here like this, and then select some color that stands out from your spreadsheet.
00:35I'm going to select, say, Red, go OK, and then OK one more time.
00:41At this point, you will have only one cell selected like this, and it's not moving at all.
00:45So to animate the cursor, go right-click here on the sheet, and go View Code, and this VBA text editor will appear.
00:53Make sure that your correct sheet is highlighted here on the left-hand side of the tree, and then from this general here, you're going to pull down and select Worksheet.
01:03Over here, you're going to type Target.Calculate like that, and press Ctrl-S to save whatever you have edited here.
01:12And let's close the VBA editor, and now if you click anywhere on your spreadsheet, the highlight moves along with it.
01:19And even if you have another app on top of it, like for example, if I open a notepad like this, you can see that the cursor is still highlighted.
01:27And even if you drag in another app, maybe a browser like this, your cursor, wherever it is right now, is highlighted.
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