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Learn how to create 2D lookup in Excel with crosshair intersect highlight.

To highlight intersections in Excel, navigate to the "Home" tab, select the range of cells you want to format, and click on "Conditional Formatting." Then, choose "New Rule" and select "Use a formula to determine which cells to format." Here, input a formula that identifies the intersection you wish to highlight, such as checking if two cell values are equal. For highlighting crosshairs, there isn't a direct feature, but you can simulate it by adding diagonal lines to cells. To conduct a two-way lookup, locate the value where a specific row and column intersect. You can achieve this by combining functions like INDEX and MATCH, which allow you to search for values in rows and columns and return the corresponding value from the intersecting cell without the need for complex formulas.

At the end of this video, you should be able to answer the following questions.
How do you highlight intersection in Excel?
How to highlight crosshairs in Excel?
How do I do a 2 way lookup in Excel?
How do you highlight intersection in Excel?
How to highlight crosshairs in Excel?
What is a 2 D lookup in Excel?
How do you lookup in a 2 dimensional array in Excel?
What is a 2D Xlookup?

Here are the steps outlined in my video.

Prep Cells For Column
1) Select cell H1
2) =MATCH(D3,D5:J5,0)+3

Prep Cells For Row
1) Select cell H2
2) =MATCH(B3,C6:C36,0)+5

Highlight Intersecting Cell
1) Select your dataset (=$B$5:$J$36)
2) Home -- Style -- Conditional Formatting
3) New Rule
4) Select "Use a formula to determine which cells to format".
5) =AND(ROW()=$H$2, COLUMN()=$H$1)
6) Format
7) Fill tab.
8) Select red colour.
9) OK
10) OK

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00:00This is part two of creating 2D lookup array that looks and operates something like this.
00:05To get your crosshair intersect to work, we have to create two prep cells to capture column and row.
00:11Select cell H1 and use the match function to look for the month of May and return its position in
00:17the lookup array for the month.
00:18And we plus three to get the actual position on the worksheet.
00:22This is going to be our column index for the crosshair intersect highlight.
00:26Next, we'll get the row index.
00:27We'll be using financial element.
00:29We'll repeat the same process and add 5 to obtain the actual position on the worksheet.
00:34This formula will be our row index for highlighting the intersection of the crosshair.
00:38Now to highlight the intersecting cell, we will use the conditional formatting.
00:41Select your data set B5 to J36, then go home style conditional formatting and select new rule.
00:47Then select use a formula and use this formula.
00:50After that, select format.
00:52Make sure you're on a fill tab and select any color that you want.
00:55I'm going to select red and click OK twice.
00:58After that, you're done.
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