background color for excel and word document

[drs700]

I have problem with glare (I suffer from migraine). How do I change the
background from white to light blue, while working on excel or a word
document (keeping the font color as black)?

 

[Gord Dibben]

In Excel CTRL + a(twice in 2003) to select all cells.

Format to a light blue color.

In Word use Format>Background and set to a light blue.

In either application you can set this as default for all NEW workbooks and Word
documents.

For Word you would open Normal.dot and make the change then save.

For Excel it is a little more work.

Open a new workbook. Customize your as you wish.

File>Save As Type: scroll down to Excel Template(*.XLT) and select. Name your
workbook "BOOK"(no quotes). Excel will add the .XLT to save as BOOK.XLT.

Store this workbook in the XLSTART folder usually located at........

C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART

This will be the default workbook for File>New or the Toolbar button File>New

Do not use File>New...Blank Workbook or you will get the Excel default workbook.

NOTE: Existing workbooks are not affected by these settings.

You can also open a new workbook and delete all but one sheet. Customize as
you wish then save this as SHEET.XLT in XLSTART folder also. It now becomes
the default Insert>Sheet.

More can be found on this in Help under "templates"(no quotes).


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

I have problem with glare (I suffer from migraine). How do I change the
background from white to light blue, while working on excel or a word
document (keeping the font color as black)?

Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

 

[drs700]

Thanks Gord.
In excel if I format the background color, I would loose the grid lines. To
avoid this I can select borders for all the cells. However when I need to
print the sheet I would get very dark borders. Is there a way to get the
background color without loosing the gridlines?

 

[Gord Dibben]

Cannot see gridlines when cell background is colored.

Only way around is to use borders with the thinnest line possible or print
without gridlines. I very rarely print gridlines.

I have not fooled around with Display options in Control Panel>Display Options
but there may be a theme you could use or download from the 'net........but this
would affect all programs running under Windows OS


Gord

 

[Gord Dibben]

One more Option...........don't use borders and when printing, check Black and
White and GridLines


Gord

 

[drs700]

Thanks

One more Option...........don't use borders and when printing, check Black and
White and GridLines


Gord