A co-worker accidentally changed the color of the text in her formula bar to
red - didn't know how she had done it and couldn't find any way to change
this back to black, despite closing and re-opening Excel and looking through
all the Tools - Options selections. It did, however, reset to black after
her computer was turned off overnight.

Any idea what keystrokes might have turned the formula bar to red
(independent of cell text format)?

Is the same true for other MS office applications?

If so, it might be a setting in control panel. Have a look at
Display-appearance.


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Thanks. It is possible to turn the Formula Bar text red using Display, but
this also turns all the other message text red, which isn't what was
happening ... only the formula bar was red. Still looking......

"mrice" wrote:


Is the same true for other MS office applications?

If so, it might be a setting in control panel. Have a look at
Display-appearance.


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