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December 25, 2016
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Not earth-shattering need but ...
is there a way of making the column letter and row number OF THE ACTIVE cell more obvious in Excel 2016?
I have Excel 2010 on my laptop and the active column/row labels have a bright, easy-to-see orange
In Excel 2016 (on my desktop), the active labels are just a shade darker with a green border on one side.
My poor old eyes can't see the highlight row/column label so easily
Not vital, but it is mildly annoying to me. Is there some setting (that doesn't involve coding) to alter the shading colour of the active row/column heading?
Thank you for any advice/information
Dashboards
June 25, 2016
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I am using Excel 2010 but you can try changing the color scheme to see if it helps.
File-Options-General-Color Scheme
Sunny
December 25, 2016
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Thank you for the suggestion Sunny.
Unfortunately it doesn't make a lot of difference (Black, White or Colourful)
It may be that Microsoft has made this change from 2010 to 2016 as a "feature"!
For me it is a backwards step.
I appreciate the suggestion 
November 8, 2013
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You might like this article: highlight-selected-cells-in-excel-and-preserve-cell-formatting
Another option is to change the layout, from Page Layout tab in ribbon, in Themes section, you can change the Heading fonts (but not the heading highlight color unfortunately). The workbook theme can also be changed from there. Note that the changes apply to the current workbook, if you want these changes to be permanent, you have to modify the default Excel Template.
To modify the default Excel Template: customize-default-excel-workbook
December 25, 2016
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Catalin Bombea said
Thank you very much for this suggestion - that's certainly thinking "outside the square".
I will have a play and see what I think about it on a day to day basis.
Very much appreciate your help
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