How do you make the highlighting color darker when selecting multiple cells?

Do you want to make it darker while only selecting it? Or do you want to make
a darker highlight? To make a cell or cells with a darker highlight you can
select from diiffernt highlight color from the format bar. Otherwise while
selecting a cell you cannot change the color.

"paulcfo" wrote:

How do you make the highlighting color darker when selecting multiple cells?

I have the same problem.

This is not appear to be a cell formating issue. This appears to be a
display setting option. When I use F8, Ctrl Click, or Shift Click to select
multiple cells the selected cells are not highlighted. I can tell they are
selected from the row and columns being highlighted, but the cells themselves
do not change color so I can't tell what cells are highlighted.


"paulcfo" wrote:

How do you make the highlighting color darker when selecting multiple cells?

You can help this by increasing the Contrast setting on your monitor.

Pyle wrote:

I have the same problem.

This is not appear to be a cell formating issue. This appears to be a
display setting option. When I use F8, Ctrl Click, or Shift Click to select
multiple cells the selected cells are not highlighted. I can tell they are
selected from the row and columns being highlighted, but the cells themselves
do not change color so I can't tell what cells are highlighted.


"paulcfo" wrote:


How do you make the highlighting color darker when selecting multiple cells?

The contrast setting on the monitor has no effect.

Cells with no fill do not darken at all. I can see the color change on
shaded cells.

Any other ideas? I think I remember a setting in Vista that adjusts the
highlight color that Office inherits, but we are on XP with Office 2007 so I
don't know where to look to fix this.


"Bob I" wrote:

You can help this by increasing the Contrast setting on your monitor.

Pyle wrote:

I have the same problem.

This is not appear to be a cell formating issue. This appears to be a
display setting option. When I use F8, Ctrl Click, or Shift Click to select
multiple cells the selected cells are not highlighted. I can tell they are
selected from the row and columns being highlighted, but the cells themselves
do not change color so I can't tell what cells are highlighted.

Can't say about Vista. You could try the different "Color Themes" in the
Excel Options, Popular settings.

Pyle wrote:

The contrast setting on the monitor has no effect.

Cells with no fill do not darken at all. I can see the color change on
shaded cells.

Any other ideas? I think I remember a setting in Vista that adjusts the
highlight color that Office inherits, but we are on XP with Office 2007 so I
don't know where to look to fix this.


"Bob I" wrote:


You can help this by increasing the Contrast setting on your monitor.

Pyle wrote:


I have the same problem.

This is not appear to be a cell formating issue. This appears to be a
display setting option. When I use F8, Ctrl Click, or Shift Click to select
multiple cells the selected cells are not highlighted. I can tell they are
selected from the row and columns being highlighted, but the cells themselves
do not change color so I can't tell what cells are highlighted.

Thank you so much for posting the question and responses to this problem. I
have the same issue and have searched and searchd for a way to correct this.
Also having "old" eyes, this is a very unfortunate change in the system. As
I use excel almost daily, itis very difficult to work with the new look. I
did changethe contrast and it helped some, but it still doesn't show like the
old version. Maybe someone at Microsoft will read these questions and try to
make improvements.

"Bob I" wrote:

Can't say about Vista. You could try the different "Color Themes" in the
Excel Options, Popular settings.

Pyle wrote:

The contrast setting on the monitor has no effect.

Cells with no fill do not darken at all. I can see the color change on
shaded cells.

Any other ideas? I think I remember a setting in Vista that adjusts the
highlight color that Office inherits, but we are on XP with Office 2007 so I
don't know where to look to fix this.


"Bob I" wrote:


You can help this by increasing the Contrast setting on your monitor.

Pyle wrote:


I have the same problem.

This is not appear to be a cell formating issue. This appears to be a
display setting option. When I use F8, Ctrl Click, or Shift Click to select
multiple cells the selected cells are not highlighted. I can tell they are
selected from the row and columns being highlighted, but the cells themselves
do not change color so I can't tell what cells are highlighted.