Excel Highlighted Cell

[baq]

This sounds like a very stupid question- but I've tried several thing
and can't find the solution; this is very basic but it will have a hug
effect on my performance.

I'm using a new Intel Macbook with OSX and Office. On Excel, for th
cell selected, the gidline color turns light blue. With this it is ver
difficult to see the highlighted cell, I am used to the bold blac
highlight of the grid for the selected cell on Office for Windows.
tried looking in both excel and Mac OSX for a way to change this but
was unable to do so. The color schemes for my OS are at default. I fee
this is a rather basic thing and the solution would probably be ver
simple, but nonthless this bothers me a lot and would very much like t
have some help on this.

Thank you

 

[Tony.Oaks]

I am having the same issue. There are similar queries posted
elsewhere.

 

[Bernard Rey]

Excel uses the system contrast color, which you can set in the "Appearance"
Preference Pane. You'll have to relaunch Excel to see the change.

 

[PhilD]

Excel uses the system contrast color, which you can set in the "Appearance"
Preference Pane. You'll have to relaunch Excel to see the change.

Expanding Bernard's reply slightly, the colours are set by the
operating system, so you will have to make the changes there, not in
the application. Excel's "Help" won't help much, as the colours are
set outside of the application, and the OS "Help" won't help much, as
it doesn't know what applications you may install and how their colours
are chosen.

So, play around in the OS settings to pick a colour you like. Do not
pick black as a highlight colour if you use Word or similar, as the
same black will be used to highlight text in that application, too (and
black highlight on black text is slightly inconvenient).

PhilD

 

[Mhairi]

Hi

I've had the same trouble but I find even changing the highlighting
colour to red I can't see which cell is selected. Is there any way to
make it highlight the whole cell and not just it's outline in excel
2004 for macs?

Thanks
Mhairi

 

[little_creature]

There is a methd utilizating VBA:
Have a look here: http://www.cpearson.com/excel/excelM.htm
Section Highlighting The Active Cell, you can download an example there. If
you copy the macro into your pesonal workbook this will work every time you
open Excel.
Hope this will help.