Select all the cells, goto to FormatConditional Formatting, and set the
option to Equal to and a value of 3.

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HTH

RP
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I have an Excel spreadsheet and in it I enter dates (creating ledgers).
We
highlight (manually) each line of data containing the March balances.

I'd love to use conditional formatting to do this for me, but can't figure
out how. The only thing I want it to be able to do is highlight
(pattern=yellow) any and every cell that contains the month march (it will
only be entered as a date code, so month=3).

Thanks
Chris