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December 25, 2016
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
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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