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Find and Replace Highlight colour
- 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
mark_murphy_manluk Am having the same issue. This is something you can do that’s not great, but is a work around. Go to File>Options>Advanced. Scroll down to Show gridlines. Check that and change the color to a lighter color. I chose a light blue. Hit okay. Then try your Ctrl-F. Very easy to see the Find result. When you are done, want to print, or whatever, just go back and change back to black.
Great workaround, thank you!
- Kmb2023, thanks for the great work around. Hopefully Microsoft will address this simple user experience in future updates.
- SOLVED THE READABLE FIND (Search) in and Workbook. JUST SELECT ALL (TOP LEFT ARROW), NOW, the entire FIND AND REPLACE box is now highlighted. So easy to see.
- Worked for me. Thanks.
Thanks for your soultion, but this many steps for such an easy possible fix seems unacceptable. Do better Excel.
That was a beautiful solution! So I did some more research and found that if you go to HOME/ ALL BORDERS/ DRAW BORDERS/ LINE STYLE/ CHOOSE THE HEAVY BOTTOM ONE, THICK AND BOLD. Then with the File/ Options/ Grid lines you suggested and choose light gray. The FIND and REPLACE (CONTROL F), the entire box is now highlighted light blue. So easy to see. Check it out!
