Assuming you are speaking of the default color in the color picker drop-down and
not in the cell, Excel likes yellow so the drop-down default is always yellow.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP


On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 09:08:00 -0800, stevem
wrote:

How do I keep the fill color from changing in Excel? When I change it to 25%
grey, save changes, close the application, then reopen, it's always changed
back to yellow.