in Excel, the color of the autofiler drop-down arrow is navy blue, and
apparently hard coded. It is VERY difficult to make a difference between the
black and navy blue for such tiny arrows, and I can waste quite some time
finding out in big spreadsheets the filtered columns. An easy "low hanging
fruit" way to increase customer satisfaction would be to change the hard
coded color to a lighter one (eg. red or yellow), or even better to allow
users to choose the color they want (think about partially color blinded
people for instance...). If everybody fed up with this limitation sends an
email to Microsoft, could this increase chances to see a Microsoft patch to
solve the problem????

I'm not sure MS would issue a patch to existing versions, but maybe the next (or
the one after) could be changed.





patriceadsl wrote:

in Excel, the color of the autofiler drop-down arrow is navy blue, and
apparently hard coded. It is VERY difficult to make a difference between the
black and navy blue for such tiny arrows, and I can waste quite some time
finding out in big spreadsheets the filtered columns. An easy "low hanging
fruit" way to increase customer satisfaction would be to change the hard
coded color to a lighter one (eg. red or yellow), or even better to allow
users to choose the color they want (think about partially color blinded
people for instance...). If everybody fed up with this limitation sends an
email to Microsoft, could this increase chances to see a Microsoft patch to
solve the problem????

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Dave Peterson