Soumik Dutta
Highlighting rows in Excel datasheets is a common job in our day-to-day life. Because of better readability and visualization of a large data list, we often use it. In this article, we will show you how to highlight every 5 rows in Excel workbook. If you are also interested to apply this feature to your datasheet follow us through this article.
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4 Easy Ways to Highlight Every 5 Rows in Excel
For highlighting every 5 rows, we are using a dataset of 10 employees of a company. In this dataset, the name of those employees are in the range of cells B5:B14 and their salary is in the range of cells C5:C14. We will show you how to highlight every 5 rows in 4 different methods.
1. ISEVEN, CEILING, and ROW Functions to Highlight Every 5 Rows
In this method, we are going to use the ISEVEN, CEILING, and ROW functions to highlight every 5 rows. The dataset is in the range of cells B4:C14. After completing this process, you will see that the last 5 rows are showing in different colors. The steps are given below:
📌 Steps:
- First of all, select the entire range of cells B4:C14.
- Then, in the Home tab, go to the Conditional Formatting > New Rules.
- A new dialog box, called New Formatting Rule will appear. Now, select Use a formula to determine which cells to format.
- Write down the following formula into the empty box below Format values where this formula is true.
- Now, click on the Format option.
- Another dialog box, entitled Format Cells, will appear. Go to the Fill option.
- Default the color of the cell will be white. Change the cell color. Here, we choose a light green color to identify the highlight cells. You will also see the color in the Sample section.
- At last, click OK to close the Format Cells dialog box.
- Again, click OK to close the New Formatting Rule box.
- Finally, you will see the last 5 rows of the list get our chosen highlight color.
Thus, we can say that in the conditional formatting tab our formula has worked perfectly.
🔍 Breakdown of Our Formula
We are showing how our formula worked inside the conditional formatting tab for Row10.
👉 ROW(): This function returns 10.
👉 CEILING(ROW()-4,5)/5): This function returns 2.
👉 ISEVEN(CEILING(ROW()-4,5)/5): This function returns True and True means the value of the CEILING function is even and it will highlight the row.
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2. Using ISODD, CEILING, and ROW Functions
In this procedure, we have to use the ISODD, CEILING, and ROW functions to highlight every 5 rows. If you have already studied the breakdown of the previous method, you have found the technique of the ISODD function. Before, the ISEVEN function highlighted the text when the value of the CEILING function is even, Now, the ISODD function will highlight the text if the value of the CEILING function is odd. Though the steps are almost similar, it is described as follows:
📌 Steps:
- First, select the entire range of cells B4:C14.
- Now, in the Home tab, go to the Conditional Formatting > New Rules.
- A new dialog box, titled New Formatting Rule will appear. Then, select Use a formula to determine which cells to format.
- Write down the following formula into the empty box below Format values where this formula is true.
=ISODD(CEILING(ROW()-4,5)/5)- After that, click on the Format option.
- Another dialog box, called Format Cells, will appear.
- Now, go to the Fill option.
- The color of the cell remains white by default. Change it. Here, we choose a light green color to identify the highlight cells. You will also see the color in the Sample section.
- Click OK to close the Format Cells dialog box.
- Again, click OK to close the New Formatting Rule box.
- In the end, you will see the first 5 rows of the list get our chosen highlight color.
So, we can say that our formula worked perfectly.
🔍 Breakdown of Our Formula
We are showing how our formula worked inside the conditional formatting tab for Row5.
👉 ROW(): This function returns 5.
👉 CEILING(ROW()-4,5)/5): This function returns 1.
👉 ISODD(CEILING(ROW()-4,5)/5): This function returns True and True means the value of the CEILING function is odd and the ISODD function will highlight the row.
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3. Manually Selecting Every 5 Rows to Highlight in Excel
This option is a manual method for highlighting a row. You will go through the row directly and highlight your desired row. We will show you how to highlight the last 5 rows of this data list. The steps are given below:
📌 Steps:
- First of all, select the range of cells B10:C14.
- From the Home ribbon, select the Font > Fill Color icon.
- We choose the Theme Color as light green.
- You will see the last 5 rows turned into light green color.
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4. Use of MOD and ROW Functions to Highlight Every 5th Rows in Excel
Through this method, we will use the MOD and ROW functions to highlight the row. However, this time it will highlight every 5th row of the dataset. The procedure of this method is explained below:
📌 Steps:
- Select the entire range of cells B4:C14.
- From the Home tab, go to the Conditional Formatting > New Rules.
- A new dialog box, titled New Formatting Rule will appear. Now, select Use a formula to determine which cells to format.
- In the empty box below Format values where this formula is true write down the following formula.
- After that, click on the Format option.
- Another dialog box, called Format Cells, will appear. Go to the Fill option.
- We change the white cell color into light green color to identify the highlight cells. You will also see the color in the Sample section.
- Click OK to close the Format Cells dialog box.
- Again, click OK to close the New Formatting Rule box.
- You will see the 5th row with our chosen highlight color.
At last, we can say that our formula worked perfectly to highlight the 5th row in Excel.
🔍 Breakdown of Our Formula
We are showing how our formula worked inside the conditional formatting tab for Row9.
👉 ROW(): This function returns 9.
👉 MOD(ROW(),5)=4: This function returns True and True means the reminder value of the ROW function, and 5 is equal to 4 and the format will highlight the row.
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Conclusion
We are ending the article here today. I hope that this article will be helpful for you and you will be able to highlight every five rows in your Excel worksheet. If you have any further queries or recommendations, please share them with us in the comments section below.
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