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The best way to do it is to use Conditional Formatting. This is particularly the case because the highest value may occur more than once in a range, and you want all cells with the highest value highlighted. Select the cells, and go to Conditional Formatting and pick Formula. Say your cells with the values in them were A2 to A200. Then your formula would be:

=A2=MAX($A$2:$A$200)

That would set the formatting for the first cell, and because it is applied to all cells, the A2 at the start will change to correspond to whichever cell it is on. We use A2 because it is the first cell selected, and is the active cell. Make sure quotes do not appear around the entire formula or it won't work.

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