(Excel) Is there a way to conditional format a cell from a range of cells based on the value of an another cell?

Question

I have a cell with a text, which is the place of an another cell that I want to highlight. Lets say that it is the F6 cell, and in it, it says 'C6'. Is there a way to use conditional formatting to highlight the 'C6' cell ? Any other cell can be inputted into the F6 cell and the formatting will highlight it, if it is in the Data range.

Answer 1

You could compare the address of the current cell to the contents of F6, either:

=ADDRESS(ROW(),COLUMN(),4)=$F$6

or

=SUBSTITUTE(CELL("address",B4),"$","")=$F$6

Answer 2

If you are happy to write $C$6 you could use CELL()

Define conditional formating on B4:D7 as =CELL("address",B4)=$F$6 =CELL("address",B4) will return the reference of that cell in the from of $COLUMN$ROW (eg $C$6 for the cell C6 ) and that you can then compare.