Table Background Color Not Printing

[H Weibelt]

Excel 2000
Frontpage 2000
Windows 2000 pro
Internet Explorer 5

An Excel spreadsheet saved as a web page is not printing the cell's
background color. I've tried copy/paste the spreadsheet's contents to a
frontpage new page table, re-inserted the cell background colors. The colors
are visible on screen, in preview and in explorer but nothing when sent to
print. I then tried a test page in frontpage, shading text and table, still
no color when sent to print. Any ideas? Thanks

HJ

 

[Jack Brewster]

Excel 2000
Frontpage 2000
Windows 2000 pro
Internet Explorer 5

An Excel spreadsheet saved as a web page is not printing the cell's
background color. I've tried copy/paste the spreadsheet's contents to a
frontpage new page table, re-inserted the cell background colors. The colors
are visible on screen, in preview and in explorer but nothing when sent to
print. I then tried a test page in frontpage, shading text and table, still
no color when sent to print. Any ideas? Thanks

"H",

Using IE6 here, but I belive it's the same.
- Click "Tools | Internet Options..."
- Click the "Advanced" tab
- Scroll down and look for "Printing"
- Check the checkbox for "Print background colors and images"

This is off by default (i.e.: in pretty much everone's IE) so if it's for
public use, you may need to post similar instructions on your site.

Good luck!

 

[Jim Buyens]

-----Original Message-----

Excel 2000
Frontpage 2000
Windows 2000 pro
Internet Explorer 5

An Excel spreadsheet saved as a web page is not printing
the cell's background color. I've tried copy/paste the
spreadsheet's contents to a frontpage new page table,
re-inserted the cell background colors. The colors
are visible on screen, in preview and in explorer but
nothing when sent to print. I then tried a test page in
frontpage, shading text and table, still no color when
sent to print. Any ideas? Thanks

The option to print or suppress background colors and
pictures is a settting on each visitor's browser. You
can't overrride this centrally.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.interlacken.com
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[H Weibelt]

"H",

Using IE6 here, but I belive it's the same.
- Click "Tools | Internet Options..."
- Click the "Advanced" tab
- Scroll down and look for "Printing"
- Check the checkbox for "Print background colors and images"

This is off by default (i.e.: in pretty much everone's IE) so if it's for
public use, you may need to post similar instructions on your site.

Good luck!

It worked. Since this is for an intranet, I can create a faq's post on
printing the background colors. Thank you very much.

HJ

 

[H Weibelt]

The option to print or suppress background colors and
pictures is a settting on each visitor's browser. You
can't overrride this centrally.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
*------------------------------------------------------*
|\----------------------------------------------------/|
|| Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out ||
|| Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out ||
|| Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition ||
|| Troubleshooting Microsoft FrontPage 2002 ||
|| Faster Smarter Beginning Programming ||
|| (All from Microsoft Press) ||
|/----------------------------------------------------\|
*------------------------------------------------------*

Thanks for the info. Since this is for an intranet, I can post the
instructions to change the options.

HJ