Need HELP with Excel 2007 cell selection highlighting

ja-kid

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When you select individual cells with CTRL+mouse click; How do you get each cell to be HIGHLIGHTED (same color on each click) just like it did in ALL previous version of MS Office (2003, 2000, etc)?

The only things being highlighted in 2007 version, are the end borders of the row where each cell is located and the top of the column.

It is very difficult to look back and see all the individual cells that you just selected (especially in multiple columns selection with same row of cells selected). The NEW 2007 MS Office no longer perform this highlighting action by default. \o/
 

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Actually, it does highlight them, it's just that the highlighting colour is quite pale and, as far as I know, there isn't an option to change it.
 
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If that is the case, that really sucks. I only see all white cells on my screen.

Dragging to highlight sequential cells is not a problem (that is same as Shift+click, that works. The issue is, for example, if you wanted to select every other cell (in other words, have blank cells in between the selected ones)
 
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I get the same highlighting either way. The activecell is white, the others are highlighted pale blue.
 
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Just as an update:

If I stood up and looked at the LCD monitor at about a 30 degree angle, and I could see the very faint shadings in the particular cells. I guess not all monitors are created equal, which added to the known Microsoft existing issue.:oops:

Well, since I don't want to have to stoop down, or stand up to do my work, I decide to adjust the screen contrast, way below where i really like it. That helped to improce the cell shading a little bit better. I also went into my system screen setting and made the document panel a slightly dirty-white, instead of a clean bright white look.
 
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