Please refrain from posting in ALL CAPS

It is hard to read and considered as "shouting" by most people.

Now, to your question.

Might be this problem........................

The Windows High Contrast setting.

Read this KB article.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=833258
The fill color, the fill pattern, or the line color of a WordArt or
AutoShape object in an Office document does not change


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 10:51:02 -0700, BAKER
wrote:

IF I CHANGE MY TEXT IN EXCEL TO A DIFFERENT COLOR ON SCREEN IT STILL SHOWS AS
BLACK BUT WILL PRINT THE COLOR I CHANGED IT TO

Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP