How to select and highlight diagonal cells in Excel?
In Excel, we usually need to select multiples cells, but have you ever tried to select and highlight the diagonal cells in a range? In this article, I will introduce a VBA coed to quickly select diagonal cells for you.
Select and highlight diagonal cells
Select and highlight diagonal cells
To select diagonal cells, you can use a macro code.
1. Select the cell you want to start the diagonal selection and press Alt + F11 keys to enable the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
2. Click Insert > Module and paste below code to the script.
VBA: Select diagonal cells
Sub selectDiag()
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Dim I As Long
Dim xCount As Long
Dim xRg As Range
On Error Resume Next
Set xRg = ActiveCell
If xRg Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
xCount = Val(InputBox("How many cells do you want to select diagonally?", "KuTools For Excel"))
If xCount = 0 Then Exit Sub
For I = 1 To (xCount - 1)
Set xRg = Union(xRg, ActiveCell.Offset(I, I))
Next I
xRg.Select
End Sub3. Press F5 key and a dialog pops out to remind you to select cells, type the number of diagonal cells you want to select in the textbox.
4. Click OK. The diagonal cells in the selection have been selected.
Then you can highlight the cells with the background color.
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