Your keywords are in blue. The argument names are in black. This is normal.

Kim

If you want to have some fun... Open your VBA Window, go to Tools, Select Options, then select the Editor Format Tab.

From here you can change the colors, font type, font size.

Just keep in mind if you open this on a different computer, your preferences will not follow.

I set mine up to have a dark background so it's easier on the eyes after longer periods of time working.

Hope this helps.

-Raymond

Yeah, the change between blue and black is very subtle, and like Raymond said, you can edit those yourself if you'd like to. I prefer the dark mode myself, but I find that if I do that in my videos it confuses a lot of people, so I leave it white for the videos. But like my HTML editor, I've got it set to dark mode. Pretty much everything on my computer is in dark mode, easier on the eyes.

Richard, us old farts grew up using DOS program editors.   Back in the day, "Brief" was my editor of choice; so what we call DARK MODE today has always been the ONLY MODE we ever saw.  For years after Windows changed all that with its default White Background, we scrambled trying to change our program editors color scheme to get back to the familiar Black Background with different colored text programming constructs.   Today, I agree with you that Dark Mode is much easier on the eyes.

Gary My editor of choice was Vi. Anyone old enough to remember that?

Sami I have used Vi in Linux systems.  I assume you were using Unix.

Gary When my son showed me the dark mode that he discovered on his chromebook, it made me laugh.  It is funny how the old becomes new again.

I used it on the Digital PDP-11 then the VAX . And we wrote our own VI to run on the Honeywell Level 6.

God I am old!! lol

Sammy,
I started programming in 1975 (Wow!! 50 years ago) using COBOL, IBM 360 Assembler and PLAN (this was in the U.K.)

Darn

I worked on all of the above except for. PLAN.

Here, hold my beer.   MY first programming language was the boot loader on a DEC PDP-11 using a teletype machine with paper tape.    After that it was BASIC on the PDP-11 using 80 column punch cards.   In college it was 80 column punch cards to create JCL code for an IBM-360 to run my punch card Fortran program.   Did anyone else ever write programs in FORTH?

LOL, this reminds me of the scene from the original Jaws movie.
Where the scientist and the sheriff are trying to one-up each other with their shark stories.

I know many of my friends here have worked on 80-column punch cards. I wonder how many of you programmed machines using punch tape?

Alright, some of you old-timers have me beat as far as the earliest systems you worked on, but this is the first real computer that I had at home as a kid that I learned how to program on (image). Nothing beats the old TRS-80 color computer black text on a green background. Stare at that for 12 hours a day throughout your entire childhood and then you wonder why you're going blind in your 50s.

And I mind you, I didn't have an actual monitor... I had this thing plugged into an old school TV, so the text was not crisp at all.