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How to Highlight a Row in Excel Using Conditional Formatting Conditional formatting lets you format cells in an Excel spreadsheet based on the cells’ content. For example, you could have a cell turn red when it contains a number lower than 100. You can also use conditional formatting to highlight an entire row? Select Freeze Panes and click Add. To freeze the top row, select row 2 and click the magic Freeze button. Scroll down to the rest of the worksheet. Excel automatically adds a dark grey horizontal line to indicate that the top row is frozen. Note: to unlock all rows and columns, click the Freeze button again.

How to extend selection to the end of column or entire row in Excel?

When working with a long column or row, you may need to select the whole column or row with data for some purpose. In this article, we will show you how to extend the selection to the end of column or row after selecting the first cell.

Extend selection to the end of column of row with shortcut key

The following shortcut keys help you extending selection to end of column or row in Excel.

1. Select the first or any cell of the column or row, and then press the keys simultaneously. Then you can see the selection is extended to the end of current column as below screenshot shown.

2. For extending the selection to the entire row, please select the first or any cell of the row, then press keys simultaneously.

Then you can see the selection is extended to the entire row with data as below screenshot show.

Notes:

1. If the first selected cell is empty, it will extend the selection to the first non-empty cell below the selected cell as following screenshot shown:

2. If there are blank cells exist in the column, the selection will stop at the first blank cell after using the shortcut key as below screenshot shown.

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How to highlight selected row / column / column and row in Excel?

In a large worksheet, it may be easier for you to read the data by highlighting the entire row, column or both row and column, because of losing track of where the selected cell is located when you scroll the worksheet. This article, I will talk about how to highlight the whole row, column or both row and column of the selected cell, and when the cell changes, the column or row of the new cell are highlighted automatically.

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Highlight the row / column / column and row of selected cell with Conditional Formatting

In fact, Conditional Formatting is a powerful function, it can help you to highlight the whole row, column or column and row of active cell, and changes with the cell moves, please do as follows:

1. Go to the worksheet that you want to use, and click cell A1, then select the whole worksheet, (you can click on the square at the intersection of the row and column headers), see screenshot:

2. Then click Home > Conditional Formatting > New Rule to open the New Formatting Rule dialog, in the popped out dialog, please click Use a formula to determine which cells to format option, and enter this formula: =OR(CELL('col')=CELL('col',A1),CELL('row')=CELL('row',A1)) into the Format values where this formula is true text box, see screenshot:

Tips: To highlight the entire row of selected cell, please apply this formula: =ROW()=CELL('row'), to highlight the selected column only please use this formula: =COLUMN()=CELL('col').

3. Go on clicking Format button, and in the Format Cells dialog box, please specify a color for highlighting the row and column of active cell under the Fill tab, see screenshot:

4. And then click OK > OK to exit the dialogs, now, you can see the whole column and row of selected cell A1 have been highlighted at once, then, you can click any cell and press F9 key to highlight the selected entire column and row, see screenshot:

Highlight the row / column / column and row of selected cell with Kutools for Excel

If the Conditional Formatting method is a little difficult for you, I can introduce a handy tool- Kutools for Excel, with its Reading Layout utility, you can highlight the row, column, row and column of the selected cell with only one click.

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After installing Kutools for Excel, please do as follows:

1. Select a cell which you want to highlight the column and row, then, click Kutools > Reading Layout, and the column and row of the selected cell have been highlighted, when you click other cell or range of cells, the column and row of the new cell are highlighted automatically, see screenshot:

Notes:

1. You can go the Reading Layout Settings dialog box to set the highlighted color and the shapes, styles as you need.