The high contrast setting may be turned on. There's information in the
following MSKB article:

OFF: Changes to Fill Colour and Fill Pattern Are Not Displayed
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=320531


Christy wrote:
Has anyone ever seen this? My computer at work opens excel from the lan. The application is not on the hard drive.

When you try to apply color or a pattern to a cell, the cell remains white. The color shows up in print preview and will print correctly but will not show up on the screen.

All other computers open the same excel application and work fine.

Any ideas?




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