How to Highlight the Most Recent Date

In this article, you will learn how to highlight the most recent date in the range. We will use Conditional formatting option along with MAX function in Microsoft Excel.

To understand let’s take an example:-

We have sell data to a product agent wise, in which we want to see the latest date of sold product.

Cell C13, contains the newest date which we can easily figure out from small data. But people who are working on a large data, need a solution to identify the earliest date from a range.

Follow below given steps:-

Select date range, column C
Use ALT + O + D shortcut key
Or we can go to Home ribbon > Conditional formatting > Click on New Rule

Click on “Format only cells that contain”
Select Cell Value equal to =MAX($A:$A)
Click on Format & Select any color

Click on Ok button we will get the latest highlighted cell

In this way using Max function with Conditional Formatting, we can highlight the newest date from a range or column.

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