See if this is the problem:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=833258

Biff

"Ricardo" wrote in message
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When I change the cell shading; either by clicking the "fill color" icon
on
the Formatting toolbar or by right-clicking the cell, clicking, "Format
Cells..." and slecting a color in the "Patterns" tab; the cell stays
white.
When I switch to "print preview" the color does show. This will happen in
a
brand new Excel workbook with no special formatting. I even ran the
"detect
and repair" wizard and reset all settings to defaults.