Fill Color Wont Show in Cell

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Parker

Hello All,
We are upgrading from Office 2000pro to 2003pro. All is going well with 1
users exception in Excel. After the upgrade, the Fill Color and Font Color
options appear not to work although when printing, the color does appear in
the printout but not in the cell that was formatted. The client cannot see
where the color fill or font color is when opening the excel sheet. The
sheets were created in the 2000 program. I have attempted to do a repair
install with no luck and an uninstall and reinstall of the program which
also did not correct the problem. Is there a setting somewhere that is
incorrectly set? No other client seems to have this problem. Any help will
be much appreciated!

Thank You in Advance
 
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Echo S

I'd guess that your client has High Contrast settings selected in Windows |
Control Panel | Accessibility Options.

Another possibility: in Excel check File | Page Setup | Sheet tab and make
sure you don't have Black and White selected there in the Print section.
Sometimes that causes the file to lose shading.

And finally, we've seen an odd issue in PowerPoint where copied Excel cells
lose their color when pasted into PPT. It seems this one is resolved by
setting a color printer driver as the default printer, so if all else fails,
you might look at the default printers in the problem system vs the okay
systems.
 
P

Parker

Hello Ehco S,
Thank you SO much. The high contrast checkbox was checked. After
unchecking the box, all of the colors were back as well as the fill color
and font color now working correctly. Much Appreciated!!

Thanks Again

Echo S said:
I'd guess that your client has High Contrast settings selected in Windows
| Control Panel | Accessibility Options.

Another possibility: in Excel check File | Page Setup | Sheet tab and
make sure you don't have Black and White selected there in the Print
section. Sometimes that causes the file to lose shading.

And finally, we've seen an odd issue in PowerPoint where copied Excel
cells lose their color when pasted into PPT. It seems this one is resolved
by setting a color printer driver as the default printer, so if all else
fails, you might look at the default printers in the problem system vs the
okay systems.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/

Parker said:
Hello All,
We are upgrading from Office 2000pro to 2003pro. All is going well with 1
users exception in Excel. After the upgrade, the Fill Color and Font
Color options appear not to work although when printing, the color does
appear in the printout but not in the cell that was formatted. The
client cannot see where the color fill or font color is when opening the
excel sheet. The sheets were created in the 2000 program. I have
attempted to do a repair install with no luck and an uninstall and
reinstall of the program which also did not correct the problem. Is
there a setting somewhere that is incorrectly set? No other client seems
to have this problem. Any help will be much appreciated!

Thank You in Advance
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Echo S

Great. Glad to hear that resolved it!

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/

Parker said:
Hello Ehco S,
Thank you SO much. The high contrast checkbox was checked. After
unchecking the box, all of the colors were back as well as the fill color
and font color now working correctly. Much Appreciated!!

Thanks Again

Echo S said:
I'd guess that your client has High Contrast settings selected in Windows
| Control Panel | Accessibility Options.

Another possibility: in Excel check File | Page Setup | Sheet tab and
make sure you don't have Black and White selected there in the Print
section. Sometimes that causes the file to lose shading.

And finally, we've seen an odd issue in PowerPoint where copied Excel
cells lose their color when pasted into PPT. It seems this one is
resolved by setting a color printer driver as the default printer, so if
all else fails, you might look at the default printers in the problem
system vs the okay systems.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/

Parker said:
Hello All,
We are upgrading from Office 2000pro to 2003pro. All is going well with
1 users exception in Excel. After the upgrade, the Fill Color and Font
Color options appear not to work although when printing, the color does
appear in the printout but not in the cell that was formatted. The
client cannot see where the color fill or font color is when opening the
excel sheet. The sheets were created in the 2000 program. I have
attempted to do a repair install with no luck and an uninstall and
reinstall of the program which also did not correct the problem. Is
there a setting somewhere that is incorrectly set? No other client
seems to have this problem. Any help will be much appreciated!

Thank You in Advance
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