You can use conditional formatting, are you formatting for each line that
has the word Total?

Assume the date (not header) start in A2 and you want to format B whenever
the word total is present in A?

Select all cells in B that are part of the range starting with B2, then do
format conditional formatting, select formula is and use

=ISNUMBER(SEARCH("Total",A2))

click the format button and select the pattern and click OK twice


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Regards,


Peo Sjoblom


"oceanmist" wrote in message
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I have just prepared a report using the subtotal feature. I am finding that
I
have to click on every subtotal line individually in order to format them
with a yellow background to highlight them. If i drag through the entire
list
of lines, ALL the lines get formatted even though I clicked to see only
the
subtotal lines (clicked on the small 2 in the subtotal lines to the left
of
the screen.)

Is there an easier way to do this?