Friday, May 1, 2015

microsoft excel - Cursor and selection invisible when focus is lost

When Excel window loses focus, the cursor becomes invisible. Also coloring of the respective column/row headers is back to default, so it's impossible to locate cursor and/or selection as soon as I switch to other window.



This annoys the hell out of me as it makes Excel almost unusable for most of tasks I need it for:




  • keeping track of test cases while performing testing in another window


  • obtaining data somewhere else and porting it to Excel




(I have never seen such behavior in other applications and can't even think of a justification for it.)




Is is possible to turn this behavior off, i.e. retain selection visibility when out of focus?



Edit: Contrary to what I thought when originally posted this, this is not a "new feature", it's rather a UI pragma that MS holds to in most their applications (at least since some point in time), although non-MS applications or some legacy MS applications do not always respect it.

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