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Focus highlighter now follows the focused cell in Excel#19648

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@CyrilleB79 CyrilleB79 commented Feb 19, 2026

Link to issue number:

Fixes #19641

Summary of the issue:

In Excel, visual highlighters (focus and navigator object) did not highlight the focused cell but only the whole worksheet.

Description of user facing changes:

Visual highlighters now follow the focused cell and highlight it.

Description of developer facing changes:

N/A

Description of development approach:

Created the _get_locationmethod for Excel cell object.

Testing strategy:

Manual test of highlighted cell:

  • wherever in the sheet, including last right / bottom cells
  • with an Excel zoom different than 100%
  • with windows zoom different than 100%
  • with a merged cell
  • when selecting a cell range

Known issues with pull request:

None.

Code Review Checklist:

  • Documentation:
    • Change log entry
    • User Documentation
    • Developer / Technical Documentation
    • Context sensitive help for GUI changes
  • Testing:
    • Unit tests
    • System (end to end) tests
    • Manual testing
  • UX of all users considered:
    • Speech
    • Braille
    • Low Vision
    • Different web browsers
    • Localization in other languages / culture than English
  • API is compatible with existing add-ons.
  • Security precautions taken.

@seanbudd seanbudd added the conceptApproved Similar 'triaged' for issues, PR accepted in theory, implementation needs review. label Feb 26, 2026
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Excel - Focus highlight does not highlight the selected cell

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