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First, you clear the background color of all cells on the sheet by setting the ColorIndex property to 0. And then, you highlight the entire row and column of the active cell by setting their ColorIndex property to the index number for the desired color.

Highlight active row and column without VBA On the Home tab, in the Styles group, click New Rule. In the New Formatting Rule dialog box, choose Use a formula to determine which cells to format. All the formulas make use of the CELL function to return the row/column number of the selected cell.

Click the tab for the first sheet, then hold down SHIFT while you click the tab for the last sheet that you want to select. By keyboard: First, press F6 to activate the sheet tabs. Next, use the left or right arrow keys to select the sheet you want, then you can use Ctrl+Space to select that sheet.

Right-click the data row as shown in the below screenshot, click F4 or properties window in the View menu. When selecting this, you will see the BackgroundColor option. By default, it is No Color, which means that there is no color for the background and use can select any colors.

Click General. In the Highlight color box, click the color that you want. Note: You must close and then reopen Excel to see the new highlight color.

If you want to highlight a range of cells, you can use the keyboard shortcut Shift+Arrow keys. To do this, place your cursor on the first cell in the range that you want to highlight. Then, press and hold the Shift key on your keyboard, and use the arrow keys to select the other cells in the range.

If you have a large worksheet with multiple columns, it will be difficult for you to distinguish data on that row. In this case, you can highlight the whole row of active cell so that you can quickly and easily view the data in that row when you scroll down the horizontal scroll bar .