Excel Highlight Every Nth Row with Conditional Formatting - Every 3rd, 4th, or 5th row.
Posted on: 09/23/2022
Conditional Formatting in Excel allows you to highlight every 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th row. Writing a formula using the MOD function and ROW function together allows us to do this.

Excel - Highlight every 3rd row
The MOD Function has two required arguments and shows the remainder after dividing two numbers. For example, =MOD(7,3) will return 1. Three goes into 7 two times with a remainder of 1. Another example of MOD is =MOD(5,3) will return 2.
The ROW function specifics what row you are in. =ROW(), if you are in row 5, it will return 5. =ROW() will return 9 if you are in row 9.

Conditional Formatting with MOD and ROW function
Used to highlight every 3rd row
YouTube Video
Chapters:
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0:00 Intro
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0:28 Select quickly
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0:47 Examples of MOD and ROW with Conditional Formatting
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2:16 MOD and ROW Explained
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