Changing font colour in some cells

[Guest]

Hi
I am quite new to Excel!
I can change the appearance of text using bold, italic and underline but am
having problems with colour. When I select an active cell and click on a
colour nothing seems to happen. If I go back to the cell and double click it
shows the text in the colour I want but when I move to another cell it
reverts to black. Can anyone help please?

 

[Bob Phillips]

Does this happen with all workbooks or just one? If the latter, maybe there
is some event code behind the sheet. On the tab name, right-click and
select View Code from the menu, if you see some code delete it.

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HTH

Bob Phillips

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[Debra Dalgleish]

If the high contrast setting is turned on you won't see the font colour.
There's information in the following MSKB article:

Changes to the fill color and the fill pattern are not displayed in
Office programs
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=320531

 

[Guest]

Many thanks. Problem solved!

Di W

If the high contrast setting is turned on you won't see the font colour.
There's information in the following MSKB article:

Changes to the fill color and the fill pattern are not displayed in
Office programs
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=320531

 

[Guest]

Bob

The problem was to do with the high contrast setting, but thanks for your
suggestion.
Di W