Chip Pearson has a utility on his site that does what you want.
www.cpearson.com

Unfortunately, his site appears to be down at this moment. If you check it
in a little while it might be back on line

"Taurien" wrote:

Hi!

Any function by which we can have active cell as colored or defferent from
other cells as usually we have to look at the row and column on top as its
highlighted. So any function by which a cell is colored.

Regards