根据 Excel 中的单元格值突出显示行

Question

In Excel, I have a sheet with data in 3 columns. Now I want to select all the rows that contain certain text in one of the specific columns, but that column contains multiple values per cell.

So in the above I want to highlight all the rows that in column C contain the text 'bbb'. If I add a new conditional formatting rule with the formula =$C1="bbb" only the 4th row is selected. How can I also have the 1st and 2nd rows selected please?

Answer 1

You can use COUNTIF .

As your conditional formula

=COUNTIF($C2,"*bbb*")

Then as your Applies To range

=$2:$200 

or whatever you last row is, but the start row needs to be the same as the row referenced in your conditional formula.

You can also make "*bbb*" a reference to a cell so you could change it after the fact. =COUNTIF($C2,"*" & $A$1 & "*")

Note that the column is locked in for the conditional formula ( C2) and the Applies to Range is the whole rows.

(Working when cell contents are more than just "bbb")

Answer 2

Try this conditional formatting rule:

=IF(FIND("bbb",C1)>0,TRUE,FALSE)

If "bbb" is found anywhere within C1 , it will return a number greater than 0 and will return TRUE .