How to apply conditional formatting search for multiple words in Excel?
It may be easy for us to highlight rows based on a specific value, this article, I will talk about how to highlight cells in column A depending if they are found in the column D, which means, if the cell content contains any text in a specific list, then highlight as left screenshot shown.
Conditional formatting to highlight the cells contains one of several values
Filter cells contain specific values and highlight them at once
Conditional formatting to highlight the cells contains one of several values
In fact, the Conditional Formatting can help you to solve this job, please do with the following steps:
1. First, please create a range name for the specific words list, select the cell text and enter a range name Mylist (you can rename as you need) into the Name box, and press Enter key, see screenshot:
2. Then select the cells that you want to highlight, and click Home > Conditional Formatting > New Rule, in the New Formatting Rule dialog box, finish the below operations:
(1.) Click Use a formula to determine which cells to format under the Select a Rule Type list box;
(2.) Then enter this formula: =SUM(COUNTIF(A2,"*"&Mylist&"*")) (A2 is the first cell of the range you want to highlight, Mylist is the range name you have created in step 1) into the Format values where this formula is true text box;
(3.) And then click Format button.
3. Go to the Format Cells dialog box, and choose one color to highlight the cells under the Fill tab, see screenshot:
4. And then click OK > OK to close the dialogs, all the cells which contain any one of the specific list cell values are highlighted at once, see screenshot:
Filter cells contains specific values and highlight them at once
If you have Kutools for Excel, with its Super Filter utility, you can quickly filter the cells which contains specified text values, and then highlight them at once.
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After installing Kutools for Excel, please do as follows:
1. Click Kutools Plus > Super Filter, see screenshot:
2. In the Super Filter pane, please do the following operations:
- (1.) Check Specified option, and then click
button to select the data range that you want to filter; - (2.) Choose the relationship among the filter criteria as you need;
- (3.) Then set the criteria in the criteria list box.
button to select the data range that you want to filter;
3. After setting the criteria, click Filter to filter the cells contains the specific values as you need. And then choose one fill color for the seleted cells under Home tab, see screenshot:
4. And all the cells contains the specific values are highlighted, now, you can cancel the filter by clicking Clear button, see screenshot:
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Demo: Filter cells contains specific values and highlight them at once
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