Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Row Highlight

http://blog.livedoor.jp/andrewe/archives/cat_415504.html

"Some time ago, I was experimenting with automatic row highlighting using VBA and thought a separate post might be in order just in case the previous comments got missed.

'Using the Visual Basic Editor, place the following code in ThisWorkbook.

Private Sub Workbook_SheetSelectionChange(ByVal Sh As Object, ByVal Target As Range)
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

'Then, select your range with the mouse and open Conditional Formatting from the Format menu to enter this formula.

=CELL("row")=ROW()



'This is how it looks.



'Quite simple and easy to remember. (The screen flickers a bit with larger files, it still seems to work without problems).

'Ivan F Moala of the famed Xcel Files was kind enough to show me a good alternative. It does have some drawbacks but the highlighting factor itself is improved.

Note: It was also suggested to use =OR(CELL("row")=ROW(), CELL("col")=COLUMN()) to get both active row and column on my Japanese site. The choice is yours ;-)"

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