How do I change the color of the row number?

Bob Frostad

I am working on a project plan and am having a hard time reading the line number as it is a very faint shade of gray. How do you change the color of the row number?

Bob Frostad

Thanks for the response. I did file an enhancement request. Hopefully the dev team will implement this quickly as this is very poor from an accessibility perspective..

Bassam Khalil

Hi @Bob Frostad 

Hope you are fine, you can add a system column for Auto-Number for your task and you can control its color and font size. please read the following article it will help you Auto-Number Rows

Bob Frostad

Not sure if that will work as I have to reference the row number in a Predecessor cell. So I need to make the actual row number easier to read. An auto generated cell does not keep in sync with the row number.

Jennifer Greenough

Hi Bob,

I suggest you submit an Enhancement Request, as unless I'm missing something, this is not currently a feature in Smartsheet.

Jennifer

Bob Frostad

Thanks for the response. I did file an enhancement request. Hopefully the dev team will implement this quickly as this is very poor from an accessibility perspective..

Jenn Hilber

Hi @Bob Frostad,

I have another post about this for Row Numbering. You can create a new column for the Row Number that can be formatted any way you like (size, color, background).

You need to use the Auto-Number column as a helper column and can then create a Row Number Column. I have created this for our internal users and am happy to share.

Here is a link to the sheet: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/publish?EQBCT=45339b4dd5fe4587bf818dfcd9b6cb8c

You should also be able to download the image with the instructions.

Hope this helps solve your challenge!

Jenn Hilber

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