Patrick Marotta wrote:
Thanks Dave, for the information and link....I wonder if my problem has to do
with the computer i temporarily work at....when i was at my own computer, i
didn't have this similar of color between selected items and nonselected items
(and when I will return, i don't suspect i will have that problem)....Anyway,
no need to respond unless you get another idea of anything further to be
done....
Have a good one and i have appreciated the speedy response!
Patrick
It sounds like your problem may be a Windows color scheme problem, if in
fact you're using a Windows machine. I've had such problems off and on
over the years in several versions of Windows because I like to
customize my color scheme. Every once in a while, I find that a color
scheme that looked fine in the Display panel where I created it turns
out not to work in actual applications (not necessarily the same
application every time, either). MS Word was one such, at one time; what
I thought was a fairly innocuous use of a very bright color as an accent
color that would show up only in small doses turned out to be the
document background in MS Word and it was absolutely overwhelming. But
more often, my problem has been with various combinations of highlight
and text colors. It's still not obvious to me, after many years of this,
how certain scheme colors are used. And some seem to be derived from
others automatically, such as shadow and highlight colors for certain 3D
effects in newer versions of Windows, which are slightly lighter
(highlights) and slightly darker (shadows) than the color you pick as
the object color.
Anyway, sounds like your friend's computer has a different (and possibly
more customized, since I rarely find this problem with built-in Windows
schemes) color scheme than yours. I don't know anything about Linux or
Mac color schemes, but if you're using one of those systems, someone
else should be able to tell you if that's a possibility for that system
as well. If you are using Windows, a quick way around it would be to
temporarily pick the default Windows color scheme (or some built-in
Windows scheme if you really can't stand the default) and then switch it
back when you're done working with the affected spreadsheets. More
instructions on how to do that can be forthcoming if you are interested.
Good luck,
Kira
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