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Highlight Active Cell in Excel - Excel Tips and Tricks
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Description
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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