Has someone applied conditional formatting to the cells? If so, it will
override regular background formatting. Click Format, Conditional
Formatting to check.

Bob Flanagan
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"Jonathan" wrote in message
...
I have just installed Office 2003 on a new PC when the user tries to colour
the cells in Excel nothing happens the cells stay at default.

We have re-installed, un-installed & installed again but nothing seems to
be
working and its the only PC out of 50 that has this problem. What am I
missing?

Does anyone have any idea how, what is happening and how to fix it?

Tia