Cursor and selection invisible if focus is lost
- by Alois Mahdal
"Latest" versions of Excel (I think it's since 2007) have a new added "feature" that if Excel windows loses focus, the cursor becomes invisible. Also coloring of headers is 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?