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Find and Replace Highlight colour
When I'm using the Find and Replace function and hit find, Excel finds the cell but its very hard to see because of the highlighted colour. Is there a way to change the default colour? Thanks in adv...
- I understand your struggle now. I guess you will have to rely on the columns and row headers to help you detect the column and row of the active cell.
Option 2 is to use less vibrant colours in your cells.
Also, other people posted your request as an improvement idea for Excel. You can add your vote:
- https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304921-excel-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/38326495-change-the-border-color-around-the-selected-cell
- https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304921-excel-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/40316236-active-cell-border
- https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304921-excel-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/42616582-improve-visibility-of-selected-cells
I found other pages about this topic. Some mention Excel add-ins that might help. If this is a trouble for you every day, maybe it is worth to check it:
https://www.extendoffice.com/documents/excel/3828-change-border-color-of-active-cell-in-excel.html
Good luck!
I have this same issue time and again. The green outline of a cell in Find is nearly impossible to see. If there has to be a default color that we can't change, why not make it red or yellow? Or better yet, make this a setting that the user can change. I am with mark_murphy_manluk on this one. And based on the responses in this discussion, I'm sorry to see there appears to be no solution.