Why would they change that?

Good question. Here's my guess...

You'll notice that Excel 2007 uses a lot of "pastel" coloring themes. So
that light shade of blue falls into that scheme.

There have been many complaints about this, myself included.

Although I don't have any advance knowledge I'd be willing to bet that in
the upcoming release of Excel 2010 this will be corrected/changed.

--
Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"JimAA" wrote in message
...
Thanks, not the answer I was hoping for but it does help somewhat. Why
would
they change that? This is one step backward in functionality.

"T. Valko" wrote:

am disappointed with the faint highlighting color

Welcome to the club!

Unfortunately there's no setting in Excel that will change this.

You can try adjusting your monitor contrast/tint/light/dark to see if
that
makes any difference.

--
Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"JimAA" wrote in message
...
I just upgraded to 2007 and am disappointed with the faint highlighting
color
when dragging and selecting groups of cells. I just installed SP2
Office
update and it didn't fix that. Is there a setting that darkens the
highlight
color?
Thanks