Are you the one facing Excel Fill handle not Working Properly issue, while using the fill handle useful tool. Then here know how to fix Fill handle Excel issue. The fill handle is an extremely useful Excel tool that helps the user to perform certain action easily. You can fill a cell or cells with color or with a highlighting format that consists of a color and/or a pattern. You can also copy the color or highlighting format to other cells. Excel for Office 365 for Mac Excel 2019 for Mac Excel 2016 for Mac Excel for Mac 2011 More.

Gridlines are faint lines that act like cell dividers in MS Excel. They distinguish cells from each other and make data in them more legible.

By default the gridlines are active on Excel. But depending on the kind of a data a worksheet contains, it may not have the gridlines. As a result, it could become difficult for you to read across the rows. Here’s how gridlines appear if you haven’t see them.

Let us learn few things that we should look at if the gridlines are missing and we want to bring them back.

1. Show Gridlines

MS Excel provides an option to hide gridlines for users who do not like them. In your case, the hide feature may have been activated by mistake.

If you want them to reappear, navigate to View tab and make sure the option Gridlines is checked under section Show.

2. White Gridlines

By default Excel assigns a greyish shade to the gridlines. Ensure that the color has not been changed to white. On a white background, white gridlines are bound to hide themselves.

Follow these steps to change the color to default again:-

Step 1: Go to File -> Options.

Step 2: Now click on Advanced and scroll to the section that reads Display options for this worksheet.

Step 3: From the dropdown for Gridline color choose the Automatic option. This is where you may select different colors if you wish to.

3. White Borders

Your gridlines may have the correct property set and they may also be marked for visibility. But, what if they are hidden by white colored cell borders. The best thing here is to remove the cell borders.

Step 1: Press Ctrl + A to select all the cells. Right-click and choose Format Cells.

Step 2: Go to the Border tab and make sure none of the borders are active.

4. Color Overlay

Sometimes you may highlight blocks of data by different colors to make them distinct from the rest. When colors are overlaid, gridlines hide under them. If you do not see any color there are chances that the overlay color selected is white.

Step 1: Press Ctrl + A to select all the cells.

Step 2: Go to Home tab and change the color fill option to No Fill.

5. Conditional Formatting

There are chances that some kind of conditional formatting has been applied on the worksheet to hide the gridlines.

So, navigate to Home -> Styles -> Conditional Formatting -> Clear Rules.

Note: Clearing rules will clear all other rules along with the one you are trying to remove. It is better to go to Manage Rules and find out from the details if there is such a setting. If yes, remove the specific formatting.

Bonus: Screen Properties

None of the above seem to work for you? Try and play around with the brightness and contrast of your screen. I know it sounds absurd but at times, this could well be the reason behind those missing gridlines.

Conclusion

Next time if you do not see gridlines on your worksheet you know what to do. Also, remember that these settings apply to one sheet (selected sheet) at a time.

Tip: You may apply the settings to multiple sheets at once. To do that hold the Ctrl key and select multiple tabs. Then try any of the above.Also See#msexcel #How-to/Guides

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How to find and replace fill color in Excel?

In Excel, you may fill different background colors to make the important value outstanding, but, have you ever tried to find the cells contain same color and replace them with another color at once in Excel?

Find and replace fill color with Kutools for Excel

Select all cells with specific color and then replace with another one: The utility Select Cells with Format of Kutools for Excel can help you quickly select all cells with the same formatting or certain formatting based on a specific cell, and then apply other formatting to them as you need. Kutools for Excel: with more than 200 handy Excel add-ins, free to try with no limitation in 60 days. Download and free trial Now!

Find and replace fill color with Find and Replace feature

To find the same fill color cells and replace them with another color you like, the Find and Replace feature in Excel may help you to finish this job. Please do as follows:

1. Select the range cells that you want to find and replace the fill color.

2. Press Ctrl + H to open the Find and Replace dialog box, see screenshot:

3. Then click Options >> button to expand the Find and Replace dialog box, in the expanded dialog box, click Format besides the Find what section, and select Choose Format From Cell from the drop down list see screenshot:

4. And then click to choose one cell which contains the color that you want to replace, after selecting the cell color, then click Format besides the Replace with section, and choose Format from its drop down list, see screenshot:

5. In the popped out Replace Format dialog, choose one color you like under the Fill tab, see screenshot:

6. Then click OK to go back to the Find and Replace dialog, click Replace All button to replace the color at once, and a prompt box will pop out to remind you the number of the replacements, see screenshot:

7. Then click OK and close the Find and Replace dialog, you will see the cells with the fill color you specified have been replaced by another color.

Find and replace fill color with Kutools for Excel

If you are interested in other solutions to deal with this task, I can introduce you a handy tool – Kutools for Excel, with its Select Cells with Format utility, you can quickly select all the cells with the same formatting with a specific cell.

Kutools for Excel: with more than 300 handy Excel add-ins, free to try with no limitation in 60 days.

After installing Kutools for Excel, please do as this:

1. Select the data range that you want to use.

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2. Click Kutools > Select > Select Cells with Format, see screenshot:

3. In the Select Cells with Format dialog box, click Choose Format From Cell button, see screenshot:

4. Then select the cell which contains the color that you want to replace in the Select Cells with Format dialog, see screenshot:

5. Then click OK, all the cell attributes of the selected cell have been listed into the dialog box, and only check Background Color under Fill option, see screenshot:

6. And then click Ok, all the cells which filled with this color are selected immediately, then click Home > Fill Color, and choose one color you want, and the selected cells’ color has been replaced as following screenshot shown:

Demo: Find and replace fill color with Kutools for Excel

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