Changing appearance of active spreadsheet cell

This is a question our school secretary asked of me. She has recently upgraded from an eMac to a new iMac. She works quite a bit in spreadsheets. In a spreadsheet, the active cell is outlined in light blue, which she finds hard to see, especially if it is in the middle of the screen rather than at an edge. She would like to change the appearance to an allover color in just the active cell she is working on.
I have been unable to find a way for her to do this. I can change the color of the cell, but it remains with the cell instead of moving with the active cell.
Has anyone found a way to do this?
Message was edited by: Sara Hartman

"(W)hat she was hoping was that the cell could be shaded in rather than outlined. Do you know of any way this can be done?"
Hi Sara,
Well, I suppose it could be done by re-writing the AppleWorks source code , but that's beyond my meagre talents.
There's at least a faint possibility it could be done by a talented scripter using AppleScript, but that would depend on a way to tell AppleScript which was the active cell, telling AppleWorks to fill that cell with a colour, detecting when the cell is no longer 'active' and telling AW to then replace the 'highlight colour' with whatever fill state existed before. It's a fairly simple set of steps, but putting it into AppleScript and having the script act continuously and automatically is another matter.
There are a few scripters who read and participate in this forum, so hope is not lost yet.
Regards,
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