Reverting to Original Format

[Dennis Hughes]

I opened a new workbook in 2003 and pasted a table from MS word into the
Excel.

The transfer of the data went fine, but the display of the worksheet
predictably changed. Highlighting a cell makes the cell outline go white
instead of dark, for example.

How can I change the formatting of the cells to their original look when you
first open Excel?

Thanks,

Dennis

 

[Dave Peterson]

You may want to try pasting as text to see if that avoids the trouble.

Or after the fact, you could:
select the range
format|Cells
Patterns tab|no color
Font tab|automatic color

(and as many other formats as you can determine)

 

[Dennis Hughes]

Dave,

Thanks, I formatted the cells as you suggested, I also selected Borders - no
border.

All is back to normal.

Thanks a bunch,

Dennis