How to Make an Entire Row Yellow in Excel for Office 365

Once you’ve finished adding the data to your spreadsheet, your attention typically turns to make sure that the data is presented in a way that is easy for your readers. Whether this involves changing the font, making the columns and rows bigger, or adjusting print settings, there are a number of different actions that you can take.

One helpful setting you can change is to add a fill color to some of the data that you think is most important for your reader. By adding this fill color you will draw their eyes to a particular cell or set of cells, allowing you to simplify the process of reading the data by showing that which is most important. Our guide below will show you how to add yellow fill color to an entire row in Excel for Office 365.

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How to Add Yellow Fill Color to a Row in Excel

The steps in this article were performed in the Microsoft Excel for Office 365 version of the application, but will work in most other versions of Excel as well.

Step 1: Open your file in Excel.

Step 2: Select the row number that you wish to make yellow from the left side of the window. I am going to apply the yellow fill color to row 3 in the example below.

Step 3: Click the Home tab at the top of the window.

Step 4: Click the arrow to the right of the Fill Color button, then choose the yellow square from the menu.

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