In the drop-down, go to the ‘Filter by Color’ option and select the color you applied to cells with text in bold font format.

For the column that you want to filter, click on the filter icon (the downward pointing arrow in the cell).

Click on the Filter icon (Key Board Shortcut: Control + Shift + L).

Now to filter these cells, here are the steps: In the above steps, we have converted the bold text format into a format that is recognized as a filter criterion by Excel. This will color all the cells that have the text with bold font formatting.

In the Replace Format dialog box, select the Fill Tab and select any color and click OK (make sure it’s a color that is not there already in your worksheet cells).

In the ‘Replace with:’ section, go to Format drop-down and click on ‘Choose Format From Cell’ option.

Select any cell which has the text in bold font format.

In the Find what section, go to the Format drop-down and select ‘Choose Format From Cell’.In the Find and Replace dialog box, click on the Options button.In the Editing group, click on the Find and Select drop down.

Here are the steps filter cells with bold text format: The idea is to find the bold font formatting in the worksheet and convert it into something that can be easily filtered (Hint: Cell color can be used as a filter).

Method 1 – Filter Bold Cells Using Find and Replaceįind and Replace can be used to find specific text in the worksheet, as well as a specific format (such as cell color, font color, bold font, font color).

Method 1 – Filter Bold Cells Using Find and Replace.

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