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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
The frustrating thing is that if you open an Excel file in Microsoft Teams, THE WHOLE CELL IS COLORED. Which is WAY easier to spot then a dark colored border. I thought this was the norm for all Excel files, but when I downloaded my work file from Teams to my desktop, I was so confused to why I no longer could see the selected cell from my search. It's the same company?! Why is this not a problem in the files in Teams??
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.
This seems the most workable solution so far.
Its just the one extra step of selecting the entire worksheet.
