Highlight active row/column in Excel without using VBA?

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lowak picture lowak · Mar 12, 2014 · Viewed 81.7k times · Source

What I want to achieve is to highlight active row or column. I used VBA solutions but everytime Selection_change event is used I am loosing chance to undo any changes in my worksheet.

Is there a way to somehow highlight active row / column without using VBA?

Answer

hstay picture hstay · Mar 12, 2014

The best you can get is using conditional Formatting.

Create two formula based rules:

  1. =ROW()=CELL("row")
  2. =COLUMN()=CELL("col")

As shown in:

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The only drawback is that every time you select a cell you need to recalculate your sheet. (You can press "F9")

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