Word and Excel pull these colors from your Windows Display settings. From
the Control Panel, select "Display". Then select the "Appearance" tab.

From your description, I'm guessing your computer is set to "Windows XP
style" and your colleague's computer is set to "Windows Classic Style", or he
has customized his colors with the "Advanced" button. You can play around
with these settings to find the colors you like best. But be aware, these
settings apply to all Windows applications, not just Word & Excel.

HTH,
Elkar



"mark" wrote:

My colleague pointed out that in excel selected menus and row / column
headers for selected cells were highlighted orange on my screen and grey on
his. I subsequently noticed this to be the case for Word (but not Access).
Anyone know why this is? Is there a way to customize this setting?
Thank you, m