Colors are only missing on monitor, due to High Contrast Accessibility option.
Changes to the fill color and the fill pattern are not displayed in Office programs
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=320531

Help with other color problems
Color Palette and the 56 Excel ColorIndex Colors
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel...s.htm#problems

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"jbsl" wrote in message ...
I click on a cell and want to fill the cell with a color so I click on the
little paint bucket on the top right but it does not fill the cell with the
color.

Also if I type words and want to change the color of the words it does not
work after I highlighted the words and click on the A icon.

Any ideas? At work I have no problem doing this.