Help! Selected cells in Excel 2007 aren't highlighting

michelg

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Hi there! I'm new here and I'm really hoping you can help me out. This probably doesn't seem like a big deal, but I'm finding it really annoying! I recently installed Office 2007 at home and now when I am in an Excel spreadsheet, I've noticed that the gridlines are VERY faint and also, when I select a group of cells in a sheet, normally they would become highlighted (or grayed out) so that you could see what was selected on the spreadsheet and what wasn't, but now you can't tell the difference between the selected cells and unselected cells. If I select the entire table, the only things that become highlighted are the column letters and row numbers.

I looked around to see if a setting needs to be changed, but couldn't find any. I did find one where you could change the color of the gridlines, but that was all. I also use the same software at work and don't have either problem. I also tried playing around with my monitor settings, but that didn't help either.

I am running it on Windows XP SP3.

If anyone can help me with this problem, I would really appreciate it a lot!

Thanks so much! :)
 

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