thank you for responding - I know about the arrow to change but when you
first come into excel the default color is yellow - I would like it to be the
soft gray color so we dod not have to change it everytime. Once you cange it
once it stays gray for the lenght of time you have that file up. Do you know
how I can make the default come up as gray and not yellow?

"JLGWhiz" wrote:

If you are referring to the highlight icon for text editing, click the arrow
on the right side of the icon and it shows you a palette of colors to choose
from. Other than that, the fill colors for cells and charts are determined
by the user based on the standard 56 color palette or a variety of RGB
combination or some xlconstants.

"Cindy" wrote:

is there a way to change teh default fill color for highlighting from the
default yellow to say teh light gray color so when they come in they are
easily able to highlight?