Excel 365 Focus Cell - "Show Auto-Highlight" feature is disappeared

Hi everyone, I recently update the Excel 365 to and I found the "Show Auto-Highlight" feature is disappeared. From Microsoft website: Increase ease of navigation with Focus ...

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SergeiBaklan
Jan 25, 2025
Show Auto-Highlight is still on Beta. My guess some bug appeared and functionality was removed from production. Moreover, Focus Cell was removed on Mac in mid January.

Hope it'll be back in a while on Current channel.

grenona55

Copper Contributor

Feb 07, 2025

With the new insider update, the fonction is back Feb 7 2025

SergeiBaklan

Diamond Contributor

Feb 08, 2025

Okay, thanks for sharing. My understanding

feature was never removed from Beta, which means bug was not quite critical
if it is back on Current Preview, which is actually pre-production, bug is fixed
in a while we will see it in production (Current channel), my expectation by the end of Feb

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