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3 Ways To Highlight Blank Cells In Excel || Use Of Conditional Formatting

In this tutorials, let us know how to highlight blank cells in Excel using 3 ways.


1. Use of Conditional Formatting is the easiest way to highlight cells based on its value. It is the dynamic function, which automatically highlights the blank cells.


Step1: First, select the entire data range


Step2: Go to conditional formatting from the styles menu

Step3: Click on New Rule

Step4: In the new formatting rule, select the "Format only cells that contain" option


Step5: And in the rules section, select cells with "Blanks"


Step6: Click on Format and specify the color to fill, say orange color.

Step7: Click OK.


Now you can observe that all the blank cells have been formatted with the orange color and remember that this rule is a dynamic condition.


2. Use of Go to Feature you can select all the blank cells at a single go.

Step1: Select the data range


Step2: Press F5 on your keyboard to open the 'Go to' window like this


Step3: Click on special and select blanks and Click OK.


Step4: You will see that all the blank cells would be selected like this.


Step5: Using the fill option, you can fill with some color of your choice.


Step6: This method to be used when you want to highlight cells quickly and on one time basis



3. Using the VBA method.


Step1: Go to VBA editor window by pressing Alt+F11 or select the view code option.


Step2: Insert Module



Step3: copy and paste the mentioned below code in this VBA module.

'code by dptutorials
Sub HighlightBlankCells()
Dim Dataset As Range
Set Dataset = Selection Dataset.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeBlanks).Interior.Color = vbyellow
End Sub

Step4: Select the data range


Step5: Select and run the 'highlight blank cells' macro in your excel workbook.

Step6: Now, all the blank cells have been highlighted in yellow color as we have given yellow in macro, which you can change accordingly based on you wish.


So friends this is all about how to highlight blank cells in Excel using 3 ways


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