Comments on: Questions from Brisbug, 17th June 2007 http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/archives/1978 microsoft, munging and on being a mercurial iconoclastic professional geek. Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:42:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mehdi http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/archives/1978/comment-page-1#comment-67970 Mehdi Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:18:14 +0000 http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/archives/1978#comment-67970 "Changing the selection/highlight colour in Word/Excel. This is relatively easy: Microsoft Word, as other well written Windows programs, respect the setting “Selected Item” colour in the Display Control Panel..." Just an FYI: Excel does *not* respect this. I've set my Windows highlight-color to be RGB 10,28,236; Excel shows it as RGB 234,236,245 (near-white). I also set my highlighted text to be color RGB 255,255,255 (that would make white text on a dark blue background)... Excel keeps the text RGB 0,0,0. I actually did a screen dump of a selection in Excel, pasted in in Pain.Net, and used the dropper to get the colors used. From what I understand, the only way to make Excel obey Windows settings is to select High Contrast as your Windows Desktop theme... which, imho, is a bit extreme for a single program that doesn't behave. “Changing the selection/highlight colour in Word/Excel. This is relatively easy: Microsoft Word, as other well written Windows programs, respect the setting “Selected Item” colour in the Display Control Panel…”

Just an FYI: Excel does *not* respect this. I’ve set my Windows highlight-color to be RGB 10,28,236; Excel shows it as RGB 234,236,245 (near-white). I also set my highlighted text to be color RGB 255,255,255 (that would make white text on a dark blue background)… Excel keeps the text RGB 0,0,0. I actually did a screen dump of a selection in Excel, pasted in in Pain.Net, and used the dropper to get the colors used.

From what I understand, the only way to make Excel obey Windows settings is to select High Contrast as your Windows Desktop theme… which, imho, is a bit extreme for a single program that doesn’t behave.

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