Hi Jacob,

In theory the scenario you describe cannot occur. A custom palette is only
saved within the workbook and does not affect Excel's default palette or any
other workbooks.

A long shot might be if the wb you downloaded had a 'default' palette of a
pre xl97 version, can cause some odd things in rare circumstances, as I
understand.

Post back if you are still having problems.

Regards,
Peter T

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I created a spreadsheet that used a color scheme that was copied from
another spreadsheet that I had downloaded from a microsoft website. I
recently opened that spreadsheet while I had a new one open and it
converted the colors in the new one to be the same. I did not want
this color scheme for my new spreadsheet and I was unable to reset the
colors to the default.

So basically what is happening is that if I open this spreadsheet with
a custum color scheme, while another spreadsheet is open, it converts
all the color schemes to the custom one. If the spreadsheets are then
saved, they are stuck with that color scheme. I am not able to reset
the colors using toolsoptionscolor tabReset. It doesn't do
anything.

I am extremely frustrated and by looking at similar posts, it doesn't
that there is much knowledge about this subject. I would appreciate
any help I can get.

Thanks,

Jacob