When you view a large worksheet with numerous data, you may want to highlight the selected cell' row and column so that you can easily and intuitively read the.
How to Dynamically Highlight a Record with Today's Date in Excel For more Excel tips and tricks visit me at. In this video I'll show you how you can dynamically highlight a record based on today's date in Excel by using conditional formatting. To do this, you'll need to first select the first row of your data set. From here you'll use the conditional formatting and then select use formula to determine which cells to format.
From here you'll then select the date in the row that you've highlighted after typing in the equals symbol and then make sure that the reference is relative on the column but no t on the row (i.e. Absolute reference). Once you type the equals symbol again, you'll then type in the today formula TODAY. This is going to mean that all cells that you've highlighted in the row (meaning all columns) will have formatting applied if the date field = today's date. Once you hit enter, you'll copy the entire row that you've applied the conditional formatting to and then apply it to all of the other rows in the data set.
When the date changes so will the record that is being highlighted based on the current day (today's date). Other Links and Resources How to Highlight a Row in Excel Using Conditional Formatting How to highlight rows with conditional formatting Highlight entire rows Highlighting the Rows of Selected Cells Excel 2007: Highlight Active Row How to change the row color based on a cell's value in Excel Apply shading to alternate rows in a worksheet Microsoft Excel: Highlight the current row and column How to auto-highlight row and column of active cell in Excel? Hightlight active row/column in Excel without using VBA?
Learn How to Highlight Rows in Excel Based on Duplicates How to use Conditional Formatting to Highlight Data Format Entire Row Based on One Cell TODAY function.
By default, when the user selects a cell, Excel highlights the row and column by changing the color of the associated row and column headers. This tip shares multiple ways to highlight the row and column in more obvious ways as well as a way to highlight the cell in a specific column in the same row.
The emphasis is on the use of conditional formatting to accomplish the task. The minimal VBA code required to make it work is the same single executable statement for all of the different highlighting options! For a version in a page by itself (i.e., not in a scrollable iframe as below) visit Posted in, Tagged, Post navigation. Seems very drastic, but I found a workaround to the problem of recalculation not working properly unless the worksheet was changed I basically change the worksheet programmatically while disabling the display of this change until I’m back on the desired worksheet for which I want recalculation to take place. I’m hoping that you can find a better solution.
Here’s the code I use to get the worksheet to show the highlighting properly: Application.ScreenUpdating = False Application.Sheets(“Sheet1”).Activate Application.Sheets(Target.Worksheet.Index).Activate Application.ScreenUpdating = True. To highlight only the selected cell: the instructions are the same as for “Highlight cell in specific column and same row as selected cell,” except: The formula is =AND(CELL(“col”)=CELL(“col”,A1),CELL(“row”)=CELL(“row”,A1)) ———— One disadvantage to this highlighting business: the highlighting will show up when you print the worksheet.:-( But there is a way to avoid this: select a cell that’s OUTSIDE of the print area before you print. (If you’re highlighting entire rows and columns, select a row and column outside of the print area.). If you have Manual calculation mode then you may notice that the colour does not update cleanly automatically. I like manual mode for the workbook I use as it has a lot of formulas in it.
So a better workaround that the sheet change above is below. For some reason the screen updating false to true toggle is enough to instantly update the screen and you’ll see the conditional format instantly instead of a delay. Option Explicit Private Sub WorksheetSelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range) Target.Calculate ‘this will auto update the conditional formatting on this sheet to do the highlighting Application.ScreenUpdating = False ‘THIS AUTO UPDATES THE SCREEN SO THAT THE CONDITIONAL FORMAT MOVES STRAIGHT AWAY EVEN IN MANUAL CALCULATION MODE Application.ScreenUpdating = True ‘THIS AUTO UPDATES THE SCREEN SO THAT THE CONDITIONAL FORMAT MOVES STRAIGHT AWAY EVEN IN MANUAL CALCULATION MODE End Sub.