thanks
works in Excel XP

"Jacob Skaria" wrote in message
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From menu select Format|Conditional formatting
Set Condition
Cells value is greater than 500.
Select the format you would need.
Click OK

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Jacob Skaria


"Sul@MS" wrote:

I have a spreadsheet that consists of 100 columns with 100 rows;

How can I highlight a cell whose value exceeds 500? tia