How can I change "exclude" .fm Icons to stand out from regular?

I put them in a Group labeled "Exclude".

I agree that this is a problem. The only way to do it would be a resource editor, which may not be simple.

Here is a script hack that you might find useful. Run this and it will select any excluded components in the book.

main ();

function main () {
    
    var book;
    
    book = app.ActiveBook;
    if (book.ObjectValid () === 1) {
        processBook (book);
    }
}

function processBook (book) {
    
    var bookComp;
    
    // Loop through all of the components in the book.
    bookComp = book.FirstComponentInBook;
    while (bookComp.ObjectValid () === 1) {
        // Select excluded components; deselect regular components.
        bookComp.ComponentIsSelected = bookComp.ExcludeBookComponent;
        bookComp = bookComp.NextBookComponentInDFSOrder;
    }
    
    book.IsInFront = 1;
}

Ugh. I don't have an answer for you, but this is a pet peeve for me, Jeffrey.

The red outline is subtle enough that I miss it sometimes and I don't have red-green color blindness. This comes up regularly with my male students, and not just here. FrameMaker's auto-spell check uses red for typos and green for everything else, and track text edits also defaults to red and green (though the colors can be reconfigured for track text edits).

Considering that red-green color blindness affects about 8% of the male population worldwide (1 in 12 men), I do wish that the FrameMaker team would offer some accessibility alternatives within the application. (And yes, I know that women can have it too—I think it's closer to 0.4%—but it doesn't seem to be the recurring issue in my classes as it is for my male students.)

Consider filing a feature request on Tracker. I'd vote for it!

~Barb