Simple One

[jayjaybe]

I've stumbled my way through most of the conversion pain in going from
a PC Excel user to a Mac user (the pain has been minor I must admit).
One thing that is very trivial is one that I haven't been able to solve
myself. The active cell is highlighted with a light blue border, and is
sometimes very diffficult to see. Anyone know how to change the
formatting on the active cell?

Now if you're giddy with confidence after answering that one, I can ask
another that I've never found an answer to: can Excel integrate to find
the area beneath a line? Thanks for any help,

jb

 

[JE McGimpsey]

I've stumbled my way through most of the conversion pain in going from
a PC Excel user to a Mac user (the pain has been minor I must admit).
One thing that is very trivial is one that I haven't been able to solve
myself. The active cell is highlighted with a light blue border, and is
sometimes very diffficult to see. Anyone know how to change the
formatting on the active cell?

XL's highlight color comes from the System Preferences. Choose System
Preferences from the Apple menu. In the Appearance tab, choose a
different color in the Highlight dropdown. Note that this will affect
all applications.

Now if you're giddy with confidence after answering that one, I can ask
another that I've never found an answer to: can Excel integrate to find
the area beneath a line? Thanks for any help,

There's no inherent integration function in XL. There are a number of
techniques that you can use - the best method depends on various
circumstances. You can check the excel newsgroup archives:

http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search?as_ugroup=*excel*

 

[Helpful Harry]

I've stumbled my way through most of the conversion pain in going from
a PC Excel user to a Mac user (the pain has been minor I must admit).
One thing that is very trivial is one that I haven't been able to solve
myself. The active cell is highlighted with a light blue border, and is
sometimes very diffficult to see. Anyone know how to change the
formatting on the active cell?

This is one of the Mac OS's preferences - Appearance I think (I haven't
got Mac OS X on this computer to check). You can change the colour it
uses to highlight things, incluing selecting text in word processors
and Excel's cells selection.

Now if you're giddy with confidence after answering that one, I can ask
another that I've never found an answer to: can Excel integrate to find
the area beneath a line? Thanks for any help,

Excel is a spreadsheet that works on text / numerical values in cells
rather than actual formulas. Typing "Y = 3X + 5", for example" into a
cell isn't anything meaningful to Excel, therefore it can't do an
integration on that formula either.

Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)

 

[JE McGimpsey]

XL's highlight color comes from the System Preferences. Choose System
Preferences from the Apple menu. In the Appearance tab, choose a
different color in the Highlight dropdown. Note that this will affect
all applications.

One thing I forgot -

XL loads this setting when it starts up. To see the result of changing
the setting, close and reopen XL.