Thanks, David. I hope this is the answer - I didn't understand the
first posting either. <g

Pete

David McRitchie wrote:
ah ha, so much easier with the answer.


"Pete_UK" wrote in message ups.com...
The colour fill icon just displays the standard colours.

If you want the extended colours and/or the fill effects you should use
Format | Cells | Patterns and you can choose them from here.

Hope this helps.

Pete

Khyber wrote:
I read the KB however high contrast is not on. When I click on the arrow of
the colour pallette the pallette displays without the more fill colours
function or fill effects that usually appears at the bottom of the pallette

"David McRitchie" wrote:

Would it be a correct assumption that you did not read the
Microsoft Knowledge Base article that Gord pointed out,
since you did not say whether it worked or not.
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"Khyber" wrote in message ...
When I click on fill it does not display more fill colours. Going through
Tools OPtions Colour Reset does not get it to display. All colours when
clicked on for a cell display no problems.

"Gord Dibben" wrote:

You are very short on details here but I'll take a guess.

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 Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:47:01 -0700, Khyber
wrote:

I have tried the tools options reset but my colours do not display properly

Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP