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  • 5/1/2025
Learn how to crosshair highlight in excel, essentially, how to highlight row and column of active cell.

Here's how to achieve a crosshair cell highlighting effect where both row and column is highlighted where the cell is selected. This video will demonstrate how to quickly crosshair highlight active cell in Excel? Using excel to highlight active row and column conditional formatting is what I will be doing.

Here are the steps outlined in the video.

Highlight Selected Row
1) Ctrl + A
2) Home -- Style -- Conditional Formatting
3) New Rule
4) Select "Use a formula to determine which cells to format".
5) =ROW()=CELL("ROW")
6) Format
7) Fill tab.
8) Select blue colour.
9) OK
10) OK

Here are the past videos of how to create a crosshair highlight in Excel.

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Transcript
00:00Here is how you achieve a cross-hair cell highlighting effect like this, where both row and column is highlighted where the cell is selected.
00:08So first of all, let's select the whole title set by pressing Ctrl-A, and after that, go Home, Style, Conditional Formatting, New Rule.
00:17Over here, you'll be using Use Formula, and this is the formula you'll be using today.
00:25Once you enter the formula, click on Format.
00:29Make sure you're on the Fill tab, and let's say I'm going to select Blue, and click OK, and OK one more time.
00:36You can see now your row is highlighted, but there's no animation quite yet.
00:41So next thing we're going to do is to set up your highlight for the column.
00:44Ctrl-A to select your whole data set again, if it's not selected.
00:48Home, Style, Conditional Formatting, New Rule one more time, Use Formula, and this is the formula you'll be using.
00:55Once you enter that formula, click on Format.
01:03Make sure you're on the Fill tab again.
01:04I'm going to use the same color, blue, and click on OK.
01:08And OK one more time.
01:09As you can see, column is highlighted right now, but there's, again, no animation.
01:14Let's introduce animation by right-clicking on the sheet, and click View Code.
01:19In this View Code, you're going to select Worksheet from the pull-down menu, and enter the following command, Target.Calculate.
01:31Once that's done, press Ctrl-S to save your VBA code, and close your VBA editor.
01:37Now, if you were to click anywhere on the cell, you can see that the crosshair will follow wherever you go.
01:43So, let's go.

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