With the use of Excel’s conditional formatting, you can set the rules once and let Excel do the highlighting for you.

How to lock cells in Excel 1. Select your whole sheet, done most easily by pressing Crtl + A on your PC keyboard, or Command + A on a Mac. 2. In the "Home" tab, click on the arrow under "Alignment ...

Then, select the header cells, B2:P2, and click Wrap Text in the Alignment group on the Home tab. As you can see in Figure D, you usually have to tweak a column or two–or maybe even all of them.