Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings, but your complaint is one that has
been expressed many times. I don't know of any way to adjust settings to
provide better contrast between selected and not-selected cells. You might
try one of the other color schemes available and see if one of them helps any.

Hopefully someone will (or may already have) discover a fix to this
continuing issue. If someone's already figured something out, then hopefully
they'll post here.

" wrote:

Hello,

I am using Excel 2007.

In the older versions when I select a row, column, or specific group
of cells, Excel would highlight the group in a certain color. In Excel
2007, it simply surrounds the selected group of cells with a thick
black line.

I've tried going into Excel Options under Advanced but couldn't find
how to do this. Can you assist me in changing this feature?

Thanks,
Tom