Highlight color in OSX

How can I change it? I am in a Excel 2004 file and I want the color of the thing that indicates what cell I am in to be a brighter color as I can barley see it. I did change this in the appearance panel and nothing has been changed in Excel.
I did the same in Classic and opened Excel 98 and the color was changed.
So it appears that the OSX Appearance app does not obey the instructions, but the OS 9 Appearance app does.
John

Make the change in System Preferences... then quit and re-load Excel.
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