In this article, we will learn How to Apply Colors to Subtotal Rows in Excel in Excel.
Color Subtotal level rows
Working with excel files. Subtotal level rows are usually visible but differentiating it with other rows makes it more readable. We can color on category or subcategory or at the grand total level. But the problem occurs when we select the rows on sublevel and apply color, the color gets applied to the whole data. For this we need to select only visible rows.
Select only visible Rows in Excel
There are some steps to be followed to color only the visible subtotal summary.
Example :
All of these might be confusing to understand. Let's understand how to use the function using an example. Here we three Subtotal levels
Level3:
Level2:
Level1:
Now we need to color all these so that these rows can be distinguished at any subtotal level. Follow the steps
Select the level 2 and select the rows to color.
Go to Find & Select > Go to Special > select Visible cells only.
Now you see the cells have darkened as shown below
Go to Home > fill color > choose the color you like to fill.
As you can Orange color is applied. Now to confirm select level 3.
As you can clearly subtotal level 2 rows got background color.
Now select Level 1 and use a different color on it.
Different levels are colored differently.
Here are all the observational notes using the formula in Excel
Notes :
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