search entire Excel workbook for text string and highlight cell

Question

I need to search an entire Excel workbook containing multiple sheets for text strings that may be present in multiple columns (say in the range column A to column

Answer 1

I'm all for a good VBA solution when it is needed... but here you are better off using Find + Replace (Ctrl + H / Cmd + H). Click the "Options" button and next to the replace you can format the text to replace it with. Select "Format" then fill then the blue color. Put "information" in both the find and replace fields and run :)