Blue files and folders are 'compressed', a feature of the NTFS file system
to save disk space.

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Jim
"Karmann_K" wrote in message
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|I am new to Excel 2003. When you go to open a new document, using File and
| Open, in the Open dialogue box some of the files are blue and some are
black.
| I have done a search using the help function but to no avail. Is it
| something simple? Like which files you have recently opened?