In . com, stewbhoy
spake thusly:

I wonder if someone could help with the problem i'm having with
applying colour formats to my spreadsheet? Whenever i try to add
a colour to the cell or the font it just wont do it, nor when i
try conditional formats. I am totally bemused by this one as i
cant seem to find any helpful hints within excel. i'm using excel
2003

If you have conditional formatting enabled, it will override
normal formatting when your condition is true.

-dman-