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Up to 2 weeks ago I worked under Windows XP while Excel hides colors under a high contrast theme, I worked around that by making my own Windows theme. Squinting to be able to read the ribbon options, etc.) Switching off high contrast just to be able to work with Excel will make the whole experience even worse, since Excel only has 3 themes build in, which are all too bright for me (eye strain after 10 minutes, mouse pointer not trackable, Keeping high contrast on makes designing Excel / Office solutions with any kind of color formatting guesswork MS Office specialist designing Excel solutions, I really need to see what colors my sheets use, let alone check if conditional formatting works. I know the high contrast setting can be turned off and Excel will show cell and text colors again, but that is not a resolution for me: I do not have an inverted color scheme (white text on black background) applied for nothing. Question: how can I persuade Excel 2010 to show font and background colors again when using a high contrast Windows theme (accessibility option)? Bonus question: how to do this also for other Office applications (less important, but still an issue)? (edited slightly to make solutions a real list, and added 5 new ones also posted this question atįinally bought a new laptop with Windows 8.1, installed my Office 2010 on it, got all excited about the speed and new functionality, but then reality hit hard
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