Launch Microsoft Excel. Click the Developer tab, then click the Visual Basic button. Once the VBA Editor is open, type the code to change the color of the cell.

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.

These step-by-step instructions show you how to add the Developer tab to the Ribbon in Word and Excel 2016 and Office 365, and to use it to launch the Visual Basic Editor and access Visual Basic ...