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AriesFR
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Dec 10, 2025

(Apparently) Unpredictable crazy colors in Excel dark mode

Hi,

At LAST, there is a so-called Dark Mode in Excel, thanks for our eyes! Unfortunately, if the developpers wanted to discourage us from using it, they probably wouln't have done it any other way!

In short, I tend to use colors in my spreadsheets to highlight value, especially inconsistent or unwanted ones, obviously. Now, someone at Microsoft seems to have deemed it a decent idea to (apparently randomly) display a dirty brown when I ask for yellow, Except in the buttons backgrounds, which renders the text unreadable, to break the "automatic color" feature that should make the text readable whatever the background color, and not to provide any way to predict what will be the end color of a random pick.

 

Is there any way to set Excel so the color I pick is the one that is displayed in Dark Mode? At worst, is there any way to get a formula that will tell me what values I need to enter so I get the color I really want in my cell?

 

Thanks for any decent update to this really needed feature!

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  • TaurineEN's avatar
    TaurineEN
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    Aries,
    I did some factor control. It did not read for me. If you want to, I can work with you, to have it read AND you keep you.

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