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Old 09-14-2021, 08:56 PM
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Question A way to easily determine the formatting used in a cell

Hi!




I teach a class on Excel and have to grade many Excel files.


I seem to remember in some bygone spreadsheet (Lotus, etc.), you could select a cell, then click on a button OR press a combination of shortcut keys. A dialog box would pop up and definitively identify all formats used in that cell.


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Is there such a feature in Excel 2019 / MS-Office 365 Excel to perform the same function?


It would sure save a lot of time if I could easily id the fonts, formatting, conditional formatting, etc. without having to guess all of the time.


Thank you ahead of time for any help you can provide!


Tom
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Old 09-15-2021, 12:15 AM
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The formatting used in any cell is immediately visible in the top ribbon so you can see at a glance without pressing anything. I assume you have the ribbon displayed?
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There is a formula called CELL, but its not very helpfull in the real world.

Personally if it was a repetative task and fairly limited criteria i would write a macro to check each cell and provide output if not as expected
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