because Office 2007 doesn't visibly highlight individual cells

Believe it or not that's not true. It does highlight each area but in a way
that does not display well, or at all, on a lot of monitors apparently. It
is "subtle" but clearly visible on my setup. MS is aware of the problem
(see link) and we can hope that the next version of Excel deals with it. It
would be nice if they did something for this version in SP2 but that looks
like a long shot.

http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/...selection.aspx

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Jim
"michael0511" wrote in message
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|I frequently select individual cells in a worksheet while holding down the
| CTRL key to use the status bar to sum, count or average the results
without
| needing to write a formula for a temporary calculation.
|
| Now that I've been forced to use Office 2007 , I can't do that because
| Office 2007 doesn't visibly highlight individual cells, only the row and
| column headers of the selected cells! (My old PC was passed down to a new
| employee and replaced with a new one, and we can no longer purchase Office
| 2003)
|
| I've used Excel and Word for well over ten years, and now I'm filled with
| hatred for this new version. In fact, I feel that way about the entire
| Office 2007 suite so far.
|
| Needless to say, I'm VERY upset about the random changes forced on me by
| this new version of Microsoft Office, and I'm looking for solutions.
|
| I already know about OpenOffice and would love to switch, but I don't have
| the option right now, so I'd appreciate help with what I'm stuck with for
the
| time being.
|
| Thanks in advance.
|
| Michael.