Conditional formatting, even when applied to the whole row/column, treats each cell individually and applies formatting only to the cells that meet criteria.

**Example:**  
An attempt to highlight whole row `7` if any of the cells is not blank:

[![enter image description here][1]][1]

Result: As mentioned above, highlights only specific cells, not the whole row.  

If only there was a *range-aware* version of the `isblank()` function, that would operate on a range of cells instead of treating each cell individually. Like so: `=not(isblank(row(A7:7)))` - This works not as desired, i.e. it evaluates `row(A7:7)` as an integer literal `"7"`, and, since `"7"` is not blank, the whole expression evaluates to `TRUE`, regardless of the contents of the cells.

Is it possible to achieve this *range-aware* formatting on formula level, i.e. without a custom script?  

*(Yeah, yeah, I'm aware that the custom script for that is not that time-consuming to write, but more people might be facing the same problem, so a more user-friendly solution is welcome.)*


  [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/av3m5.png