Is it possible to change the border colour of the selected cell?
Not sure when it happened but the pale green doesn’t really work for me.
I can’t see it very well anyway but worse a lot of my spread sheets have a green theme anyway - eg columns for data entry (not formulas) are highlighted in pale green.
I actually choose green as I found it easy on the eye - blended in, not distracting!
The opposite of what I want a selected cell to be …
thanks
1 Like
See Asked Before: Calc ver 7.3.1.3 Highlighted Cell Color - #4 by Villeroy and Change selected cell indicator colour (Calc) - #4 by analytical_prat.
Thanks - I missed that, I think it was the highlighted bit as I think of that as the background colour of a cell (like highlighted text in writer etc) . Also I’m not comfortable with how the new site works yet…
Anyway I’ve followed Villeroy’s solution which improves things if you don’t have a border around your data - if you do it doesn’t help as much. I could change the border colour to blue (as suggested in the other thread) but I have to print some of these things out and a black border is better for that…
If it is dependent on your operating system - I’m running linux mint (cinnamon) and have been for approx 1 year now and I only noticed this fairly recently and I haven’t changed my my settings. Did update OS, but quite a while ago - really not sure if that caused the change - I think I would have noticed if I updated and this immediately changed but then I have been ignoring it/putting up with it for a while. I dual boot with Windows (10) so next time I’m in Windows I’ll have a look at what calc looks like.
(Feel like a grumpy old person - Why do things have to keep changing? Why? Just makes life more difficult …but then I’ve not had a good day!) 
I have exactly the same problem of not being able to change the border colour of a selected cell. I am using Mac OS with latest 7.4.0.3 LibreOffice S/W. I don’t see anyone offering a clear solution to a very important problem - namely not being able to see a selected cell - IMMEDIATELY. Lime green is not easy to see. Help please.
Sorry late to reply - but see my comment on 13 may.
It is operating system dependent - so in your case Mac OS.
You need to change the theme/colour scheme in Mac OS …no idea how to do that -its years since I used a Mac. But sure a bit of web searching will tell you how to do it
Sure it is a ‘new’ thing - before it mustn’t have been OS linked… I changed to Linux mint a year or so before I started having this problem and as far as I am aware Mint hasn’t changed colour scheme.
So I’ve looked in Windows and it is different -it is operator system dependent.
My solution (in Linux Mint cinnamon) go to system settings, themes and change the ‘controls’ - I’m using Mint-y-blue -but if you open a spreadsheet at the same time you can choose which suits you (and your spreadsheets best)
However I had done villeroy’s changing TransparentSelection to false but this actually makes it harder to see the cells - I’ve changed it back to true now (Will post this in that thread too)
It is better now but not ideal…
1 Like