how to get excel to highlight cells in formula
To apply conditional formatting that will highlight the cells with formulas: 1  Select cells A2:C4, with cell A2 as the active cell. 2  On the Excel Ribbon's Home tab, click the Condtional Formatting command. 3  Click New Rule.  Click Use a formula to determine which cells to format. Enter and ISFORMULA formula, refering to the active cell -- A2: =ISFORMULA(A2) Click the Format button, and select a fill color for the cells with formulas -- gray in this example. Click OK, twice, to close the windows.