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How to find cells with conditional formatting in Excel?

Author Siluvia Last modified

In Excel, you can easily locate cells with conditional formatting applied. Additionally, you can identify cells that share the same conditional formatting rules as a selected cell. This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions for finding and selecting these cells in your worksheet.

Find all cells with conditional formatting in Excel
Find all cells with the same conditional formatting as a selected cell in Excel

Find all cells with conditional formatting in Excel

Using the Find & Select function, you can quickly locate all cells with conditional formatting in the current worksheet.

1. Click "Find & Select" > "Conditional Formatting" under "Home" tab. See screenshot:

A screenshot of the Find & Select menu in Excel highlighting the Conditional Formatting option

2. After clicking Conditional Formatting in above step, all cells with conditional formatting in current worksheet will be selected immediately.

A screenshot showing selected cells with conditional formatting in an Excel worksheet

Find all cells with the same conditional formatting as a selected cell in Excel

In addition to finding all cells with conditional formatting, you can also locate all cells in the current worksheet that share the same type of conditional formatting as a selected cell. Follow these steps:

1. Select a cell that contains the conditional formatting you want to find in other cells.

2. Click "Find & Select" > "Go To Special" under "Home" tab.

A screenshot of the Find & Select menu in Excel highlighting the Go To Special option

3. In the "Go To Special" dialog box, check the "Conditional formats" and the "Same" options, and then click the "OK" button. See screenshot:

A screenshot of the Go To Special dialog box with Conditional Formats and Same options selected

All cells with the same type of conditional formatting as the selected cell will now be highlighted.

A screenshot of all selected cells with the same conditional formatting rule in Excel

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