How to use highlight cells rules With that out of the way, we’re going to begin with highlight cells rules. These can be found on the Home tab under Conditional Formatting > Highlight Cells Rules.

If you want to put a line through your text in Microsoft Office programs like Word or Excel, you have to use the Strikethrough feature.

When a conditional formatting rule is overkill, use these VBA procedures to highlight duplicates and then remove the highlighting in Microsoft Excel.

If your subtotaling rows are lost in a sea of worksheet data, use this simple conditional formatting technique to make those rows easy to spot.

Open an application that contains the text you'd like to parse, then copy the text by highlighting it and pressing "Ctrl-C." Launch Excel and create a new workbook.