If you tried to manually change the the fill color and it didn't work a
possibility is that the cells are conditionally formatted. Conditional
formatting will override manual formatting.

Select a cell that is shaded and goto the menu FormatConditional
Formatting. Are there any settings applied?

Biff

"Scotty J" wrote in message
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I was given a worksheet with several cells already shaded. There is no
data or values in these cells. I was wondering how I could change the
color on those specific cells.