Hi Scott,
I don't know what I was thinking about for yellow. You were talking about
the color for selected cells. I knew it wasn't making sense and that it affected
all of windows and I was saying change the color palette which only
changes one workbook. Ok so back on track. My Excel is 2000
and I think that is where the colored selection began in Excel.
The color used for selection is not one of the colors in the Color Palette
the color of the selection is RGB(169, 178, 202)
If you assign that color to a cell, then Excel will approximate it to
what it thinks is the closest color RGB(192, 192, 192) which is
a gray and distinctly different. from the selection color.
The fact that it doesn't match any color in the color palette helps to
make it possible to distinguish characters even when selected.
As Frank said it will affect all of Windows and Office for selections
selecting something in HTML, selecting something from Windows Start,
selecting something in notepad, selecting from any list such as filenames,
drop downs, and of course selecting cells that you wanted.
Settings, Control Panel, Display,.
on scheme type in your name and date -- Scott-2004-03-31-Current
then Save As,
now you have saved your current scheme which is probably the default
that you started with but you would have a hard time identifying you
are actually using unless you name it yourself, now you have a permanent
scheme to fall back to...
Next type in your name and date and test i.e. Scott-2004-03-31-test
and once again use Save As,
Then within item: select Selection and then choose your color , then apply.
To get back to what you had simply go back to your last scheme
Scott-2004-03-31-current you can always fall back to this.
HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
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