How about conditional formatting. You could have a condition like

=A1=$A$1

where the word is in A1, and apply to a whole range.

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"baileygrrrl" wrote in message
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Is there a way to have excel to highlight each instance of a particular
word
in a file?

Eg. I need excel to look for the word "delivered" in a worksheet and
highlight it each time it finds that word - by highlight I mean change the
text colour or cell shading or some other way to make it stand out.