You need to post your conditional format formula.

"Cashius War eagle" <Cashius War wrote in
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In Excel, I create a conditional formatting to highlite a duplicate
refference. The formatting applyied, as indicated when I click conditional
formatting again, but does not display in the cell. I am useing Office
2003.
I applied a red patern with white bold, but the cell does not display any
change.