Not sure if this is related but I've come across some curious problems
linked to the difference in default palettes in pre XL97 and XL97 on.

By chance, if you format a colour to orange (right of red on the palette),
does it come back a sort of brown after save / close / reopen.

Regards,
Peter

"John Pritchard" <John wrote in message
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I save a workbook with workbooks(<filename).close savechanges := TRUE and
any cell formatting is lost. I've traced the circumstances to the version
of
Excel the original <filename was created in. If the file was version 4.0
formatting is lost (even if it's been subsequently saved as the 'latest
Excel
version') otherwise it's OK. Given that I can have no influence on the
Excel
version of the original file is there anyway of saving my formatting
changes
(I'm only interesting in the colorindex). Also how can I tell what the
original Excel version was from within VB (or elsewhere) - The above
applies
to XP, NT and windows 2000. I'm using office 2000 in all cases. Thanks.