Thanks for taking the time to respond!

On Aug 12, 9:01*pm, "Jim Cone" wrote:
Pete gave you about the only option available.

You could upgrade to xl2003.
Or experiment with the color of the sheet gridlines. *You might be able to get more contrast that way?
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Jim Cone
Portland, Oregon *USA

"dcb1" wrote in message
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On Aug 12, 7:33 pm, "Jim wrote:

I appreciate your help; however, what I want to do is only change the
border of the cell (from black to any other color) my cursor selects
and not the actual cell from the spreadsheet. Or, change the color of
the cell temporarily being selected but not actually change the shade
of that cell within that spreadsheet which of course is easy. *I hope
this makes sense.