This is a really cool Excel trick that can potentially save your a tonne of time. By the using the Find functionality in Excel we can find all the cells that meet your chosen formatting criteria, select all of those cells, then change them all at once. How neat is that. Come on let’s see how easy it is…
- First open the Find dialog box by hitting CTRL+F
- Click on the Options Button to enable us to find Formatting within the worksheet
- Select the formatting you are looking for by selecting Choose Format From Cell
- Hit Find All- Excel will show you a preview of the formatting
- Hit CTRL+A to select ALL of the cells that Excel has found with this formatting
In my example I am looking to select all of the cells with black bold text and orange background. Once all of the cells are selected I can go ahead and carry out the replacement of this formatting style.
- Hit close on the Find and Replace dialog box after you have selected all of the cell Excel has found with the formatting- all of the cells will still be selected venen when you hit the Close Button
- Go ahead and change your selected cells to the new formatting stye you want
- The new style will be automatically applied to all of the selected cells
- Magic!
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