Have a bunch of negative values that you want to highlight? You can do that easily through Excel Macros!
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?
Highlights negative values in your selected range
Copy Source Code:
Sub HighlightNegativeValues() Dim NumberToCheck As Range 'Loop through all numbers in the selection For Each NumberToCheck In Selection If WorksheetFunction.IsNumber(NumberToCheck) Then 'If it's lesser than 0, then set the font color to red If NumberToCheck.Value < 0 Then NumberToCheck.Font.Color= RGB(255, 0, 0) End If End If Next End Sub
Final Result:Â
Exercise Workbook:
These are our values:
STEP 1: Go to Developer > Code > Visual Basic
STEP 2: Paste in your code and Select Save. Close the window afterwards.
STEP 3:Â Let us test it out!
Open the sheet containing the data. Go to Developer > Code > Macros
Make sure your data is selected and that your correct macro is selected. Click Run.
With just one click, all of the negative values are now marked as color red!
How to Highlight Negative Values Using Macros In Excel
