One of the most widespread applications installed on most computers globally is Excel from Microsoft. As with the Word text editor, here we find software solutions known to the majority.
Both are part of the technology giant’s well-known office suite, Office. In this specific case, we want to focus on a program that helps us carry out all types of tasks and calculations with numerical data. Not in vain is it considered the main reference in the spreadsheet sector. It is a program that cannot exactly be considered simple, but it adapts to the activities of both end users and companies.
Getting the most out of Excel is quite a complicated task. Firstly, because of all the functions and formulas that it presents to us, and secondly because Microsoft does not stop improving it. This is something that, for example, happens in this case with a function that has just been added and that many of you are going to appreciate. Especially all of you who spend a good number of hours glued to the screen working with Microsoft Excel. We tell you all this because the company has just announced a new program tool for Windows that will improve the visibility of the active cell.
Most of you know that this application presents us by default with a user interface full of thousands of cells. Sometimes and if we work with a good amount of data in the active sheet, locating the one we are in can become a real hassle. Hence precisely the new feature that we are telling you about, which they have called Focus Cell.
This is Focus Cell, the new function to view Excel cells
In this way and when we put it into operation, the tool that we mentioned highlights the current active cell. All this is achieved through a new visual experience that will allow us to be more productive with the program. Surely on more than one occasion you have found yourself faced with the unpleasant situation of not knowing the cell in which we are located.
This is essential if we want to continue working with the Excel sheet adding data or formulas. Hence, with the new function, instead of showing us a simple border around the active cell, Focus Cell applies highlights to the corresponding row and column. In turn, it increases the thickness of the edge of the cell itself so that we can locate it sooner.
As you can imagine, these visual changes make the active cell more visible. It allows users to easily identify data in the same row and column so they can continue work here. If you need to activate the new function, first open any Excel document that has a large data set.
We access the View menu option which is located at the top of the main interface. Here we can see the new cell functionality button to activate or deactivate the function. We can also use the key combination Alt + W + E + F for the process. It is worth knowing that we have the possibility of changing the color of the highlights in this case. In turn, the function is activated automatically when using the Find and Replace tool.
