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Highlight All Errors Using Macros In Excel

Have a lot of errors in your worksheet but having a hard time finding them? Excel Macros... read more

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Have a lot of errors in your worksheet but having a hard time finding them? Excel Macros will make short work of this and we can highlight all errors!

Make sure your Excel has the Developer Tab enabled following this tutorial.

I explain how you can do this below step by step!

What does it do?

Highlight all of the errors

Copy Source Code:


Sub HighlightAllErrors()

Dim cell As Range

For Each cell In ActiveSheet.UsedRange
'Check if it is an error, then change the style to be Bad
If WorksheetFunction.IsError(cell) Then
cell.Style = "Bad"
End If
Next cell

End Sub

Final Result: 

Highlight All Errors Using Macros In Excel

Exercise Workbook:

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Download excel workbookHighlight-All-Errors.xlsm


Here is our initial set of data, you can see there are a lot of errors in there:

Highlight All Errors Using Macros In Excel

STEP 1: Go to Developer > Code > Visual Basic

Highlight All Errors Using Macros In Excel | MyExcelOnline

 

STEP 2: Paste in your code and Select Save. Close the window afterwards.

Highlight All Errors Using Macros In Excel

 

STEP 3: Let us test it out!

Open the sheet containing the data. Go to Developer > Code > Macros

Highlight All Errors Using Macros In Excel | MyExcelOnline

 

Make sure your macro is selected. Click Run.

Highlight All Errors Using Macros In Excel

 

With just one click, all of the cells with errors are now highlighted!Highlight All Errors Using Macros In Excel

 

How to Highlight All Errors Using Macros In Excel

 

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