How to highlight precedent or dependent cells in Excel?
When creating formulas in Excel, it’s common to refer cells within formulas. But do you know how to quickly find out and highlight the precedent or dependent cells of formulas? This article will show you an easy way!
Highlight precedent or dependent cells in Excel
Highlight precedent or dependent cells in Excel
To highlight all precedent or dependent cells in the specified range, please do as follows:
1. Select the specified range you will highlight all precedent or dependent cells, and press F5 key to open the Go To dialog box.
2. In the Go To dialog box, please click the Special button. See screenshot:
3. In the Go To Special dialog box, please check the Precedents option, and click the OK button. See screenshot:
4. Now all precedent cells are selected. Please go ahead to click Home > Fill Color, and then select a fill color from the drop-down list. See screenshot:
Now all precedent cells in the selection are highlighted manually. See screenshot:
Note: If you need to highlight all dependent cells, please check the Dependents option and click the OK button in the Go To Special dialog box. See screenshot:
Go ahead to choose a fill color, and you will see all dependent cells are highlighted in the selection. See screenshot:
Best Office Productivity Tools
Supercharge Your Excel Skills with Kutools for Excel, and Experience Efficiency Like Never Before. Kutools for Excel Offers Over 300 Advanced Features to Boost Productivity and Save Time. Click Here to Get The Feature You Need The Most...
Office Tab Brings Tabbed interface to Office, and Make Your Work Much Easier
- Enable tabbed editing and reading in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Access, Visio and Project.
- Open and create multiple documents in new tabs of the same window, rather than in new windows.
- Increases your productivity by 50%, and reduces hundreds of mouse clicks for you every day!
