Change color of active cell highlight

D...@officeformac.com

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Jun 22, 2008, 11:54:22 PM6/22/08

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Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

When using excel,the highlighting color of the active cell is so faint (a very light blue), I can't easily see which cell is active. How do I change the border color on the active cell to something brighter? Thanks.

CyberTaz

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Jun 23, 2008, 12:13:05 AM6/23/08

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Excel picks this up from System Preferences. If you go to AppleMenu> System
Preferences> Appearance - Highlight you can select from a palette of preset
colors or use Other... To select a color of your choice. However, that's a
global system setting which will apply as the highlight color in all
programs.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

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Jul 7, 2008, 2:27:54 PM7/7/08

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Did this work for you? I tried it, and my highlights changed in alot of place but not excel. Any other suggestions??

Excel picks this up from System Preferences. If you go to AppleMenu> System
Preferences> Appearance - Highlight you can select from a palette of preset
colors or use Other... To select a color of your choice. However, that's
a global system setting which will apply as the highlight color in all
programs.

HTH |:>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac

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Bob Greenblatt

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Jul 7, 2008, 3:33:17 PM7/7/08

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On 7/7/08 2:27 PM, in article 59b51...@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "Dana
Lucas " <> wrote:

> Did this work for you? I tried it, and my highlights changed in alot of place
> but not excel. Any other suggestions??
>

Have you restarted Excel since you made the change to the system
preferences?

--
Bob Greenblatt [MVP], Macintosh
bobgreenblattATmsnDOTcom

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Jul 30, 2008, 10:03:09 AM7/30/08

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When using excel,the highlighting color of the active cell is so faint
(a very light blue), I can't easily see which cell is active. How do I
change the border color on the active cell to something brighter? Thanks.

I am having this same problem; where you able to get this resolved and how so?
Thanks

Bob Greenblatt

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Jul 30, 2008, 12:56:59 PM7/30/08

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On 7/30/08 10:03 AM, in article 59b51...@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,
"Maureen" <Maureen> wrote:

Quit Excel. Go to System Preferences - Appearance. Change the highlight
color. Then restart Excel.

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Jul 30, 2008, 2:35:15 PM7/30/08

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On 7/30/08 10:03 AM, in article 59b51...@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "Maureen"

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> > > When using excel,the highlighting color of the active cell is so
faint > (a very light blue), I can't easily see which cell is active.
How do I > change the border color on the active cell to something brighter?

> Thanks. > > > > > I am having this same problem; where you able to get

this resolved and how so? > Thanks Quit Excel. Go to System Preferences
- Appearance. Change the highlight color. Then restart Excel.

-- Bob Greenblatt [MVP], Macintosh bobgreenblattATmsnDOTcom

It worked, thank you very much!

Unknown

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Aug 4, 2008, 2:11:59 PM8/4/08

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RY

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Aug 20, 2008, 12:13:06 PM8/20/08

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How do you do this for Windows PCs?

doug....@docusign.com

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Apr 24, 2013, 4:30:59 PM4/24/13

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THANKS WORKED AWESOME. Key: Restart Excel > change color > bingo bango!

izacapro...@gmail.com

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Apr 6, 2014, 1:49:53 PM4/6/14

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I have been SCOURING the 'net for an easy simple answer to this that didn't involve installing something or changing code or whatever - nothing nothing nothing until this post! This solved the problem. THANK YOU THANK YOU!

And yes, everyone, restart excel. Then it works.

<3

jenni...@gmail.com

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Aug 12, 2015, 7:50:23 PM8/12/15

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Mine still won't change - it works in every other place except Excel :(