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Use conditional formatting to highlight formula cells only

Use conditional formatting to highlight formula cells only

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Use conditional formatting to highlight formula cells only

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- [Voiceover] On this worksheet called Formulas, there are lots of formulas, and we can see them all by going to the Find & Select button on the far right side. Before using this feature, make sure you click a single cell, not two. If you click two or three or four, it only looks within that region for formulas. Click on a single cell, and it almost, a counter-intuitive way, it will look throughout the entire worksheet. Find and Select, Formulas, all the formula cells are highlighted. We could add a color; last time I used this Fill Color bucket, it was green. That's a light color, I could use that for sure. And that's good. Now, if I erase this cell here, it's still green. If I write a formula up here, it doesn't turn green. So the feature, although good at first, isn't dynamic. Let me undo those two last actions. We can use conditional formatting here and have this feature be dynamic and always up-to-date. I'm going to click in the upper left-hand corner, that selects the entire…

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