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DonM9049mentions
Jan 23, 2025Copper Contributor
All of a sudden Excel not highlighting selected worksheets
Historically, when selecting multiple worksheets in excel, the selected worksheets would be highlighted with green underline. Now, the selected worksheets are no longer highlighted. This makes it difficult to identify the selected worksheets. Appreciate thoughts on how to resolve.
I don't know if it ever changed but here is a visual:
Sheet1 is ACTIVE ->notice white background, bold lettering and green underline
Sheet2 &Sheet3 are SELECTED -> notice 'white'/highlighted background and bold lettering (note that Sheet3 is set to the same color as Sheet6 so it is significantly highlighted
Sheet4-6 are NOT selected -> NOT bold lettering or highlighted. note that Sheet5 is set to White color
So I suppose one option is to make all tabs a dark color and then the 'highlighting' will stand out better but at the very least do NOT set the tabs to white because that will make it harder to see.
Only the active sheet has a green underline. All selected sheets have a white tab color.
As far as I know this hasn't changed.
- m_tarlerBronze Contributor
I don't know if it ever changed but here is a visual:
Sheet1 is ACTIVE ->notice white background, bold lettering and green underline
Sheet2 &Sheet3 are SELECTED -> notice 'white'/highlighted background and bold lettering (note that Sheet3 is set to the same color as Sheet6 so it is significantly highlighted
Sheet4-6 are NOT selected -> NOT bold lettering or highlighted. note that Sheet5 is set to White color
So I suppose one option is to make all tabs a dark color and then the 'highlighting' will stand out better but at the very least do NOT set the tabs to white because that will make it harder to see.