This make the 3rd and final time I will post this question before giving up.

Is there a way to change the default Border, Font Color, and Cell
Background Color in Excel? The drop downs for each of these items on the
Formatting Bar are defaulted to Underlined, Red, and Yellow respectively.

You can change them obviously, however when you close Excel and open it
again they have defaulted back to the above settings.

Is there a way to change the defaults, either in the registry, user
profile, or otherwise.

Any help including a "it is not possible" response, will be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks.

I haven't tried this, but have you tried setting them in an empty workbook,
then saving that workbook as a template named Book.xlt, and save it in the
XLStart directory?

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HTH

RP
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"Elijah" wrote in message
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This make the 3rd and final time I will post this question before giving
up.

Is there a way to change the default Border, Font Color, and Cell
Background Color in Excel? The drop downs for each of these items on the
Formatting Bar are defaulted to Underlined, Red, and Yellow respectively.

You can change them obviously, however when you close Excel and open it
again they have defaulted back to the above settings.

Is there a way to change the defaults, either in the registry, user
profile, or otherwise.

Any help including a "it is not possible" response, will be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks.

Thanks Bob, but no it did not work. It does not appear that these
settings are saved anywhere in a .xls or .xlt file.

I have made the changes and saved as an xlt to both the templates, and
xlstart directories in my profile. I have also made the change to
personal.xls and saved it, however it does not retain the settings.

It appears this setting is saved somewhere other than in any given file
(i.e the registry or somewhere else).

Thanks again Bob.

Anyone else have any input as this is still an open question?

Bob Phillips wrote:
I haven't tried this, but have you tried setting them in an empty workbook,
then saving that workbook as a template named Book.xlt, and save it in the
XLStart directory?

Another way would be to force it on workbook opening.

--

HTH

RP
(remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)


"Elijah" wrote in message
...
This make the 3rd and final time I will post this question before giving
up.

Is there a way to change the default Border, Font Color, and Cell
Background Color in Excel? The drop downs for each of these items on the
Formatting Bar are defaulted to Underlined, Red, and Yellow respectively.

You can change them obviously, however when you close Excel and open it
again they have defaulted back to the above settings.

Is there a way to change the defaults, either in the registry, user
profile, or otherwise.

Any help including a "it is not possible" response, will be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks.