
In the ‘New Formatting Rule’ dialog box, click on the option ‘Use a formula to determine which cells to format’.In the drop-down options, click on New Rule.In the Styles group, click on Conditional Formatting.Select the dataset on which you want to apply Conditional Formatting (A4:F19 in this example).Here are the steps to search and highlight all the cells that have the matching text:
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I will show you how to search and highlight only the matching cells in a dataset.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create this search and highlight functionality in Excel. Something as shown below (where I enter the item name in cell B2 and press Enter, the entire row gets highlighted): Now you can use conditional formatting to search for a keyword (by entering it in cell C2) and highlight all the cells that have that keyword. It has columns for Product Name, Sales Rep, and Country.

While there is no direct way to do this in Excel, you can create search functionality using Conditional Formatting.įor example, suppose you have a dataset as shown below (in the image).

If you work with large datasets, there can be a need to create a search functionality that allows you to quickly highlight cells/rows for the searched term. Watch Video – Search and Highlight Data Using Conditional Formatting
