How to Remove Certain Colors in Excel 2007. Microsoft Excel 2007 introduced means of sorting and filtering your data by the color of your cells and their text contents. When you use color to ...

Click "Colors," a link located beside "Choose What Colors Will Be Seen in Previous Versions of Excel." Excel displays the default color palette. Select any color you want to change in the palette.

The default active cell format in Microsoft Excel isn't all that easy to see, but you can use this easy-to-implement code solution to change that.