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Quickly filter cells with strikethrough in a specific column with one click

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In Excel worksheet, you may format some cell values with strikethrough to mark the unwanted cells. Sometimes, you need to filter out all cells that formatted with strikethrough to deal with them as you need. Actually, Excel does not support a quick feature to solve this task, but, with Kutools for Excel’s Filter Strikethrough utility, you can filter all strikethrough cell values with ease.

Filter cells with strikethrough in a specific column in Excel

Filter cells with strikethrough and shade font or background color in Excel


Filter cells with strikethrough in a specific column in Excel

1. Select a column that you want to filter all cells with strikethrough, and then click Kutools Plus > Special Filter > Filter Strikethrough, see screenshot:

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2. And then, a prompt box will pop out to remind you how many matched cells are found, see screenshot:

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3. Then click OK button, all cells which are formatted with strikethrough have been filtered out as following screenshot shown:

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Filter cells with strikethrough and shade font or background color in Excel

This handy utility also can help you to shade a font or background color for the filtered results, please do as this:

1. Select a column that you want to filter all cells with strikethrough, and then click Kutools Plus > Special Filter > Special Filter, see screenshot:

shot the Special Filter option

2. In the popped out Special Filter dialog box, do the below operations:

(1.) Select Format option in the Filter rules box;

(2.) And then choose Font Strikethrough from the drop down list;

(3.) At last, in the Processing of results section box, please specify a font color or background color for the filtered results.

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Note: If you check Select entire row option, the entire rows will be selected after filtering.

3. Then click Ok button, and a prompt box will pop out to remind you how many strikethrough cells are found, see screenshot:

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4. Finally, click OK button, all cells with strikethrough have been filtered out, and the filtered results are filled with the font or background color as you specified. See screenshot:

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Demo: Filter cells with strikethrough in a specific column

 
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