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How to highlight specific text within a cell based on other text?
In Excel, it may be easy for us to highlight the cells based on a specific text, but, here, I want to highlight a specific text within a cell to make it outstanding but not the entire cell. This maybe a troublesome for most of us. This article, I will talk about some tricks for solving this job in Excel.
Highlight a specific text within multiple cells with VBA code
Highlight specific text within a cell based on other text with VBA code
Highlight a specific text within multiple cells with VBA code
For example, I have a range of text strings, and now, I want to highlight the specific text “Sky” in these cells to get the result as following screenshot shown:
To highlight only part of text within a cell, the following VBA code can help you.
1. Select the cells which you want to highlight the specific text, and then hold down the ALT + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
2. Click Insert > Module, and paste the following code in the Module Window.
VBA code: Highlight a part of text within a cell:
Sub HighlightStrings()
'Updateby Extendoffice 20160704
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Dim Rng As Range
Dim cFnd As String
Dim xTmp As String
Dim x As Long
Dim m As Long
Dim y As Long
cFnd = InputBox("Enter the text string to highlight")
y = Len(cFnd)
For Each Rng In Selection
With Rng
m = UBound(Split(Rng.Value, cFnd))
If m > 0 Then
xTmp = ""
For x = 0 To m - 1
xTmp = xTmp & Split(Rng.Value, cFnd)(x)
.Characters(Start:=Len(xTmp) + 1, Length:=y).Font.ColorIndex = 3
xTmp = xTmp & cFnd
Next
End If
End With
Next Rng
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub
3. Then press F5 key to run this code, and a prompt box will pop out to remind you enter the text that you want to highlight only, see screenshot:
4. And then click OK button, all the text you specified has been highlighted only within the cells, see screenshot:
Highlight specific text within a cell based on other text with VBA code
Here is another situation, I have two columns which the first column contains the text strings and the second column is the specific text, now, I need to highlight the relative text in the first column based on the specific text in the second column.
1. Hold down the ALT + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
2. Click Insert > Module, and paste the following code in the Module Window.
VBA code: Highlight a part of text within a cell based on other text:
Sub highlight()
'Updateby Extendoffice 20160704
Dim xStr As String
Dim xRg As Range
Dim xTxt As String
Dim xCell As Range
Dim xChar As String
Dim I As Long
Dim J As Long
On Error Resume Next
If ActiveWindow.RangeSelection.Count > 1 Then
xTxt = ActiveWindow.RangeSelection.AddressLocal
Else
xTxt = ActiveSheet.UsedRange.AddressLocal
End If
LInput:
Set xRg = Application.InputBox("please select the data range:", "Kutools for Excel", xTxt, , , , , 8)
If xRg Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
If xRg.Areas.Count > 1 Then
MsgBox "not support multiple columns"
GoTo LInput
End If
If xRg.Columns.Count <> 2 Then
MsgBox "the selected range can only contain two columns "
GoTo LInput
End If
For I = 0 To xRg.Rows.Count - 1
xStr = xRg.Range("B1").Offset(I, 0).Value
With xRg.Range("A1").Offset(I, 0)
.Font.ColorIndex = 1
For J = 1 To Len(.Text)
If Mid(.Text, J, Len(xStr)) = xStr Then .Characters(J, Len(xStr)).Font.ColorIndex = 3
Next
End With
Next I
End Sub
3. After pasting the code, and press F5 key to run it, a prompt box will pop out to remind you select the data range which both contains the text string and specific text you want to highlight and based on, see screenshot:
4. And then click OK button, all the corresponding text in the first column based on the specific text in the second column has been colored red as following screenshot:
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- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.· 1 years agoIs there a way to remove all those highlighted words?
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.· 1 years agoHi, Ace,
To delete the text based on another column cell, the below vba code may help you, please try it.
Sub DeleteStr()
Dim xStr As String
Dim xRg As Range
Dim xTxt As String
Dim xCell As Range
Dim xChar As String
Dim i As Long
Dim J As Long
On Error Resume Next
If ActiveWindow.RangeSelection.Count > 1 Then
xTxt = ActiveWindow.RangeSelection.AddressLocal
Else
xTxt = ActiveSheet.UsedRange.AddressLocal
End If
LInput:
Set xRg = Application.InputBox("please select the data range:", "Kutools for Excel", xTxt, , , , , 8)
If xRg Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
If xRg.Areas.Count > 1 Then
MsgBox "not support multiple columns"
GoTo LInput
End If
If xRg.Columns.Count <> 2 Then
MsgBox "the selected range can only contain two columns "
GoTo LInput
End If
For i = 0 To xRg.Rows.Count - 1
xStr = xRg.Range("B1").Offset(i, 0).Value
With xRg.Range("A1").Offset(i, 0)
.Font.ColorIndex = 1
For J = 1 To Len(.Text)
If Mid(.Text, J, Len(xStr)) = xStr Then
.Characters(J, Len(xStr)).Delete
End If
Next
End With
Next i
End Sub
