Worksheet tabs

[Phil Chauvin]

I am excel v.x on my iMac OSX 10.2.8. I have tried various ways to
change the color of the worksheet tabs and fonts, but to no avail.
today I opened several of my spreadsheets and the tabs fonts were in
red instead of the normal black - I have no idea how this happened,
does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks
Phil

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi Phil,

There's no setting to control the colors of the sheet tabs in Mac Office. If
you would like that feature, please take a moment to send a feature request
to Microsoft using the feedback feature from Excel's help menu.

Most of the sheet tab color problems go away when you install the office
udpates.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

All responses should be made to this newsgroup within the same thread.
Thanks.

About Microsoft MVPs:
http://www.mvps.org/

Before posting a "new" topic please be sure to search Google Groups to see
if your question has already been answered.

An Excel add-in is available to help with this task.
<http://www.rondebruin.nl/Google.htm>

 

[Guest]

Thanks Jim,
I am updated. Of course the tabs now returned to their normal color -
black - go figure. If it happened by accident i wonder... will send
note as suggested

Phil

 

[Rob]

Hi, I am also having a tab issue that I haven't seen addressed. I am
using Excel X on a Mac G4 and on a G5 running OS 10.3.2. All of a
sudden the workbook tabs have gone completely grey, making it nearly
immpossible to read the tab label (the text is there, as it appears if
I double click on the tab and highlight the text label. I believe
I've installed all available updates to OSX and Excel. Does anyone
know how to help? Thanks. -Rob

 

[Harvey Waxman]

Hi, I am also having a tab issue that I haven't seen addressed. I am
using Excel X on a Mac G4 and on a G5 running OS 10.3.2. All of a
sudden the workbook tabs have gone completely grey,

This has been discussed before.

In my experience the file is corrupt.

If you start Excel by clicking the sheet in question all subsequent sheets tabs
will behave badly.

If you quit and restart Excel fresh from the application, not by clicking the
workbook, the sheet tabs should look ok. Even the 'bad' workbook might look
ok. At least this was what was happening with me.

I had to trash the file after saving it as a slyk and re-creating it. The
problem hasn't returned.

I hope this helps.

 

[Harvey Waxman]

Hi, I am also having a tab issue that I haven't seen addressed.

You can see the thread by searching for 'sheet tabs'

 

[Rob]

Thank you Harvey - this fix worked. Also, thanks for the search
suggestion - I found the earlier thread. Much regards. - Rob