yes, I had the same thought as you. I tried 16 bit and there was no change.

This is the only program including Word & Outlook that has this effect.

I tried de-installing office 2003 and re-installing including cleaning the
registry in between.

This happened after I had to reinstall XP. I did not wipe the disk. Excel
worked fine before this.

"Ben McBen" wrote:

So this doesnt happen with any other apps? I havent seen this for a while,
used to happen when my old PC "ran out" of colours. Have you tried going
down to 16 bit (just as an experiment).

"Brian B" wrote:

my settings:

highest (32) bit
true color
1024 x 768
75hz refresh

"Ben McBen" wrote:

What are your display settings (how many colours?)