Thanks a million worked like a charm

"T. Valko" wrote:

See if this helps:

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

Biff

"SEI PHIL" <SEI wrote in message
...
Ihave somehow lost the color formats of my excel display but they are
still
applied to the worksheet when printed out or previewed?
Any suggestions
I am using Excel 2003
on XP windows laptop