Font colours missing in excel file viewed from laptop.

[Techy46]

A colleague of mine has created an excel file which appears normal on her
workstation but when she goes to view the same file on her laptop, everything
is there except the font colours that highlight specific cells. In the hope
that I could resolve it, I removed Office 2003 from her laptop and then
re-installed it. However the font colours are still missing. Interestingly,
if I highlight a cell, change the font colour and save the file using the
laptop, although I cannot see the change, when I view the same file on the
workstation, the change in font is visible. Any ideas would be much
appreciated. Thankyou.

 

[Gord Dibben]

Check this out................

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=833258

The fill color, the fill pattern, or the line color of a WordArt or
AutoShape object in an Office document does not change

As directed, change the High Contrast setting in Windows OS


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

 

[Techy46]

Thankyou Gord Dibben.

Unfortunately, the link in your reply is not working, so I can't verify
whether this will resolve the issue.

 

[Bob I]

Try again, the link works fine.

Thankyou Gord Dibben.

Unfortunately, the link in your reply is not working, so I can't verify
whether this will resolve the issue.

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[Gord Dibben]

Is OK to me.

If you can't get through, here are the instructions............

WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, turn off the high-contrast Accessibility Options.
To do this, follow these steps.

Note Because there are several versions of Microsoft Windows, the following
steps may be different on your computer. If they are, see your product
documentation to complete these steps.

1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
2. Click Accessibility Options.
3. On the Display tab, click to clear the Use High Contrast check box.
4. Click OK to close the Accessibility Options dialog box.


Gord