How to highlight all misspelled words in worksheet in Excel?
It is easy to check the spelling of texts in Excel worksheet. However, do you know how to highlight all misspelled words in a worksheet? A method in this article can help you to solve this problem.
Highlight all misspelled words in worksheet with VBA code
Highlight all misspelled words in worksheet with VBA code
Please do as follows to highlight all misspelled words in the worksheet with VBA code.
1. In the worksheet with misspelled words, you will highlight, please press the Alt + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
2. In the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window, click Insert > Module. Then copy and paste VBA code into the Code window.
VBA code: Highlight all misspelled words in worksheet
Sub ColorMispelledCells()
Dim xRg As Range, xCell As Range
On Error Resume Next
Set xRg = Application.InputBox("please select range：", "KuTools For Excel", Selection.Address, , , , , 8)
If xRg Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
For Each xCell In xRg
If Not Application.CheckSpelling(xCell.Text) Then _
xCell.Interior.ColorIndex = 28
Next
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub3. Press the F5 key to run the code. In the popping up Kutools for Excel dialog box, please select the range contains the misspelled words you will highlight, and then click the OK button. See screenshot:
Then you can see all cells containing misspelled words are highlighted immediately in selected range as below screenshot shown.
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