No Color Display in Excel & Word 'WordArt'

[Carli913]

I have a brand new computer and I purchased and loaded MS office professional 2003. I was experiencing problems in PowerPoint where the slides were appearing in black and white and I found where to change that (View - Color/Grayscale). Now Ppt is fine but my Excel and Word is still BLACK & WHITE. I can change font colors and I can see that color on my monitor, however all Word Art is black & white. In Excel I have an org chart with text boxes and colorful shadows on the boxes. They are not visible on-screen, however they show the color in Print Preview and of course they print in color. Is there a setting in Word and Excel to make the display on the monitor show up in color?

 

[Kate G.]

Make sure that the printer that is selected is a color printer and that the
appropriate drivers are installed.

Kate in MN

I have a brand new computer and I purchased and loaded MS office

professional 2003. I was experiencing problems in PowerPoint where the
slides were appearing in black and white and I found where to change that
(View - Color/Grayscale). Now Ppt is fine but my Excel and Word is still
BLACK & WHITE. I can change font colors and I can see that color on my
monitor, however all Word Art is black & white. In Excel I have an org
chart with text boxes and colorful shadows on the boxes. They are not
visible on-screen, however they show the color in Print Preview and of
course they print in color. Is there a setting in Word and Excel to make
the display on the monitor show up in color?

 

[Carli913]

can you expand on what constitiutes an "appropriate driver" and how I can check that. I did verify the printer options and they are set for color. Did I make it clear that the problem is strictly limited to the on-screen view, but the print out is full color. Thanks for any help you can offer! I was originally blaming my monitor or computer, but someone suggested it may be a problem with my MS Office software.

----- Kate G. wrote: ----

Make sure that the printer that is selected is a color printer and that th
appropriate drivers are installed

Kate in M

I have a brand new computer and I purchased and loaded MS offic

professional 2003. I was experiencing problems in PowerPoint where th
slides were appearing in black and white and I found where to change tha
(View - Color/Grayscale). Now Ppt is fine but my Excel and Word is stil
BLACK & WHITE. I can change font colors and I can see that color on m
monitor, however all Word Art is black & white. In Excel I have an or
chart with text boxes and colorful shadows on the boxes. They are no
visible on-screen, however they show the color in Print Preview and o
course they print in color. Is there a setting in Word and Excel to mak
the display on the monitor show up in color

 

[carli913]

I didn't find a solution but I did find a work-around...
My new Dell computer has the option of assigning different users their own "log-on". I loaded MS Office and the problems I'm experiencing with no color showing on screen when I use Word Art only happen under one log-on name. When I open Word under a different user name the problems don't exist! I'm not sure how to fix this issue but at least I figured out how to get around it

----- Carli913 wrote: ----

can you expand on what constitiutes an "appropriate driver" and how I can check that. I did verify the printer options and they are set for color. Did I make it clear that the problem is strictly limited to the on-screen view, but the print out is full color. Thanks for any help you can offer! I was originally blaming my monitor or computer, but someone suggested it may be a problem with my MS Office software.

----- Kate G. wrote: ----

Make sure that the printer that is selected is a color printer and that th
appropriate drivers are installed

Kate in M

I have a brand new computer and I purchased and loaded MS offic

professional 2003. I was experiencing problems in PowerPoint where th
slides were appearing in black and white and I found where to change tha
(View - Color/Grayscale). Now Ppt is fine but my Excel and Word is stil
BLACK & WHITE. I can change font colors and I can see that color on m
monitor, however all Word Art is black & white. In Excel I have an or
chart with text boxes and colorful shadows on the boxes. They are no
visible on-screen, however they show the color in Print Preview and o
course they print in color. Is there a setting in Word and Excel to mak
the display on the monitor show up in color