is there only one word per cell that you are looking for or are you looking
at cells with a number of words of which you want to find one?

If there is one word per cell then it should be relativley easy to use
conditional formating to check if the cell contents 'is equal to' to the word
you are looking for and then fill the cell with a color of your choice.

"MW" wrote:

I am looking for a way to use conditional formatting for a column to identify
if a particular word is entered into the cells.