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Focus Cell feature in Excel

Excel has a rather new feature called "Focus Cell." It may be in beta, but somehow it mysteriously appeared on my Mac and now it's disappeared. It makes searching very much easier, visually and is a neat new feature.

Has anyone else experienced this feature? You can check it out on YT. On a Windows machine, there is a button to toggle - that space on Excel for Mac is just blank - yet somehow I activated it and then it unactivated.

As I said, if anyone has discovered this and has an idea how to activate it again, I'm all ears!


Regards!

iMac 27″ 5K, macOS 13.7

Posted on Jan 10, 2025 11:46 AM

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Posted on Jan 10, 2025 6:46 PM

Thanks, Jake.

It mysteriously appeared while working in Excel a few mornings ago and today it just as mysteriously vanished. As far as I know, I did nothing unusual to get it or lose it. Too bad - it's a very helpful feature.

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Jan 21, 2025 5:17 PM in response to Rick Hess

Same here. I was using it for about a month on my Macbook Air M2, and it just mysteriously disappeared (no updates or something similar). The feature is still on my Mac Mini M1 mysteriously. Also, the feature is not available on my Windows computer even though it is supposed to be. At this point, I choose to believe that Microsoft might have tossed a coin and decided which random computer gets this useful feature ~

Focus Cell feature in Excel

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