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Easily reading / viewing a large number of rows and columns in Excel

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If you work at the worksheet contains huge data with hundreds of rows and columns, you may be easily getting puzzle while checking and jumping the data from one to the another one which will waste time. For solving this problem, the Grid Focus utility of Kutools for Excel highlights the across row and column to make the active cell or range outstanding as below screenshot shown.


Enable the Grid Focus utility

Click Kutools > Grid Focus to enable this utility, while the Grid Focus is enabled, the tab is highlighted.
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Grid Focus settings

If you want to change the settings such as the shapes, styles, colors or transparency, you can go to the Grid Focus Settings dialog to change.

Click Kutools tab, and go to click the arrow beside Grid Focus to expand the drop-down menu, then click Grid Focus Settings.
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In the Grid Focus Settings dialog, you can change the shapes, styles, colors and transparency as you need, also at the same time you can preview the change in Preview section before you applying the changes.
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About Highlight the area of active cell and Highlight the area on editing of cell options.

Tick Highlight the area of active cell option, the active cell or range will be highlighted.

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Untick Highlight the area of active cell option, but tick the Highlight the area on editing of cell option, the active cell or range will be not highlighted, but the overflowing area is highlighted.

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Untick both of Highlight the area of active cell and Highlight the area on editing of cell options, both the active cell or range and the overflowing area will be not highlighted.

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Enable Grid Focus: tick this option, after settings and click OK, the Grid Focus will be auto enabled.

Default Settings: click this button, the settings of Grid Focus have been restored to the default settings of Kutools.


Notes:

1. You can cancel this utility by clicking the Grid Focus command, the tab changes to light grey.

2. If you open multiple Excel files, this Grid Focus feature is applied to all of them.

3. This Grid Focus will not be enabled automatically when you launch the workbook next time.

Grid Focus Demo

 
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