You may want to try Chip Pearson's utility:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/RowLiner.htm

Be aware that with this (and most macros), you lose the ability to do Edit|Undo.

Andrew wrote:

How do you change the default colour that excel applies to a selected range
of cells? I do not want to permenantly highlight them (fill them) but I do
want the selected range to be more obvious?

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Dave Peterson