Excel Highlight Cell Rules - A Date Occurring

Highlight Cell Rules is a premade type of conditional formatting in Excel used to change the appearance of cells in a range based on your specified conditions

Highlight Cell Rules - A Date Occurring

Highlight Cell Rules is a premade type of conditional formatting in Excel used to change the appearance of cells in a range based on your specified conditions.

A Date Occurring... is one of the options for the condition.

Here is the Highlight Cell Rules part of the conditional formatting menu:

Highlight Cell Rule - A Date Occurring Example

The "A Date Occurring..." Highlight Cell Rule will highlight a cell with one of the appearance options based on the cell value relative to a specified time frame.

The time frame can be:

  • Yesterday
  • Today
  • Tomorrow
  • In the last 7 days
  • Last Week
  • This Week
  • Next Week
  • Last Month
  • This Month
  • Next Month
  • In this example, the specified time frame will be "next month".

    You can choose any range for where the Highlight Cell Rule should apply. It can be a a few cells, a single column, a single row, or a combination of multiple cells, rows and colums.

    Let's apply the rule to the Birthday values.

    "A Date Occurring..." Hightlight Cell Rule, step by step:

  • Select the range C2:C19 for the Birthday values
  • Click on the Conditional Formatting icon in the ribbon, from Home menu
  • Select the Highlight Cell Rules from the drop-down menu
  • Select the A Date Occurring... from the menu
  • This will open a dialog box where you can specify the value and the appearance option.

  • Select "Next Month" from the dropdown menu
  • Select the appearance option "Yellow Fill with Dark Yellow Text" from the dropdown menu
  • Now, the cells with values A Date Occurring next month will be highlighted in yellow:

    Note: In this example, the next month happens to be September.

    Turtwig, Chimchar, Piplup, Snivy, Tepig, and Oshawott all have birthdays in September, so their cells are hightlighted.

    Note: You can remove the Highlight Cell Rules with Manage Rules.

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