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Excel at 40
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Excel at 40

by MrExcel's Holy Macro! Books, Bill Jelen
November 2025
Intermediate to advanced
207 pages
6h 14m
English
Packt Publishing
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  1. Follow the Active Cell with Focus Cell

Released in July 2025, the new Focus Cell feature lets you quickly find the active cell in a spreadsheet.

Go to the View tab. In the Show group, there is a new Focus Cell drop-down. Turn on the Focus Cell and choose a Focus Cell Color from the flyout menu.

Enable the Focus Cell and choose a color using the drop-down on the View tab, in the Show group.

As you move around the spreadsheet, a temporary highlight will appear in both the active row and active column. This allows your eye to quickly find the active cell, even in a workbook like this monster spreadsheet with 12,300 cells.

This spreadsheet goes from A1 to ET82. With the Focus Cell in orange, a shaded set of crosshairs draws your eye to the active cell in EC65.

The Focus Cell is ...

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ISBN: 9781806695416