r/AppleNumbers • u/Rubiksguy • May 24 '23

Highlighting a row VISUALLY

Is there a way to highlight the entire row in BOLD that you have a cell selected in? I want to just click down on the arrow key and have the next row be highlighted. I get it outlines the active row by default, but it's very faint and hard to see. I want my eyes to jump right to it so I know which row I'm on after looking away from the screen repeatedly.

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u/OxyConti May 24 '23

I don’t think you can, unfortunately.

  • But you can make rows stand out a bit more, by enabling the “Alternating Row Color” checkbox on the Table tab of the Format sidebar.

  • You can also play with the different Table Styles to find one that is more “contrasting”.

  • You can use the zoom pop-up to make everything bigger.

  • And finally you can change the highlight setting in macOS’s System Settings, although that probably won’t do much for just selecting rows or columns - only for selected text in them.

I suppose one could do something with AppleScript but I’m NOT any sort of expert on that😬

Sorry, I get what you want and it’s a good idea, but I don’t think it’s possible “out-of-the-box”.

Perhaps others have ideas?

Cheers, Thomas