Excel doesn't show a selected cell when window lost focus

Anonymous
2014-04-20T22:48:34+00:00

Hello there,

My problem is very simple, but bothering at same time. I'm working with two big monitors, and sometimes have multiple Excel windows open at same time. The problem is, when I select a cell in one window and the go to another one, the selection from a first window is lost... What I mean, the cell is still selected, but I can't see it any more. Let me illustrate with an example:

I'm crazy? Not really. Sometimes working with big tables, I'd like to select a cell/row/area/whatever and keep it as reference. The old version of office  didn't have this problem. It's more, notepad does it good!

Any idea? Help please!!!

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-05-10T16:20:16+00:00

    Microsoft needs to add this choice to the Options.

    Until then i found:

    https://www.extendoffice.com/documents/excel/1494-excel-highlight-active-row-and-column.html#a1

    There is a nice VBA script that auto-highlights rows and columns

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