Excel for Mac

[Amy McCray]

Does anyone know how to change the highlighted color of the cell(s) selected?

I'll try to explain this correctly. I'm not talking about shading, patterns or colors within the cell itself. Rather, when looking at a spreadsheet, the grids are in a blue color and as I move from cell to cell, the perimeter of the selected cell is highlighted in the same shade of blue, only slightly darker (sort of like bold).

This is fine when the table is blank, however, as soon as there is text inside the cell, it becomes nearly impossible to tell which cell is highlighted. It's been driving me crazy forever and I've searched and searched on how to change it, to no avail.

I have found where to change the color of the grid lines themselves, but nothing for changing the cell perimeter highlighting color. Perhaps there is none. Just thought I'd ask the gurus.

Thanks for any suggestions.

 

[Richard Darling]

It sounds like you need to go to your system preferences, then choose the Appearance panel.

There you can select the highlight color.

 

[Kirstie]

Excel Preferences--colors--chart lines.

 

[Amy McCray]

Sorry, tried both suggestions and neither made any difference. hmmmmm

Thanks anyway.

 

[Paul N]

Amy:

This is from Windows Excel, it might help:

Go to Tools / Options, select the View tab and set the Gridlines Color to Automatic.

The sequel above might be different on a Mac, but you get the idea.

 

[Richard Darling]

Sorry, tried both suggestions and neither made any difference.

Amy, I tried it at home, and if you're asking about what I think you asking, make sure you close the preferences window, and quit Excel. The changes I tried didn't take effect until both Excel was restarted.

 

[Amy McCray]

Paul, I had already changed the gridlines to automatic, but thanks for the suggestion.

Richard, I just tried implementing the other suggestions again, then closing Excel and reopening but nothing changed. Repeated same steps and closed Excel and restarted the computer. Still nothing changes.

I hate to take up any more of anyone's time putzing with this. Thanks very much for your help. If I stumble on the answer some time from now, I'll let you know. Computer gremlins, to be sure.