The Patterns tab of the Format Cells dialog is now called Fill.

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Jim
"willyhoops.com" wrote in message
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| Click on a cell in Excel 2003, now do right hand mouse click, goto format
| cells, then goto the patterns tab and set the cell background colour etc.
Do
| this on Excel 2007 and the menu is missing... Why? This is not Ribbon
| related. They just forgot to add one tab to the menu....