How to Highlight on a Mac Word in Excel
The Microsoft Office suite for Macintosh computers contains Microsoft Word and Excel, as well as other programs. Excel, with its easy to use spreadsheets, is excellent for managing and organizing information and data. Highlighting portions of information may be necessary for denoting particular items on a spreadsheet. The process for highlighting in Microsoft Excel is different than highlighting in Word. To highlight items in Excel, you have to select and fill the appropriate spreadsheet cell with color.
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Select the cell or group of cells that you would like to highlight. Select a single cell by either using your arrow keys to move the selection box to that cell, or by pointing and clicking on it. Select a group of cells by either selecting the first cell and clicking and dragging to the last cell or by selecting the first cell, holding down the "Shift" key and clicking on the final cell. Select an entire row or column by clicking on the corresponding row number or column letter.
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Make sure your formatting toolbar is showing. If not, pull down the "View" menu then pull down the secondary "Toolbars" menu. Click on "Formatting."
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Click on the black arrow next to the "Fill Color" tag on the formatting toolbar. The symbol looks like a paint can pouring paint. You will see of grid of color choices.
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Select bright yellow for highlighting. The selected cells will be filled.
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