Sheet format questions -- Excel 2007

[TQuestar]

Two problems arise when I try to translate workbooks from Quattro Pro x4
format to Excel 2007.

In QPRO I save as a XLS file. and then open it in Excel. Generally this
works fine, however I find two problems:

1. The worksheets sometimes lack grid lines in Excel, though the Page Layout

Gridlines section of the ribbon has them checked. (Gridlines were showing in

QPro)

2. If I copy all of one of these sheets lacking gridlines into the
clipboard, open a new blank workbook, and paste, everything is black, because
the background is black. I must go to the Ctl-1 menu and select No Color for
the background. This results in proper appearance and gridlines showing.

Can anyone explain these behaviors? I suspect they are related.

 

[Gary''s Student]

When you first open the workbook in Excel, Excel thinks the background colour
has been set for the cells. This will surpress the visiblity of the
gridlines.

 

[TQuestar]

This is what happens, apparently, but *why* does it happen with some
workbooks, but not others? At any rate, I now know how to force a blank
background color and hence the presence of gridlines. Thanks.