tools/options/view - color- set it to automatic and then rant about why
anyone would set it to some random shade of gray.

"dlw" wrote:

In excel 2000, the user is trying to simply put a black boarder on the bottom
of a range of cells, no matter what color or type they select it always comes
out gray, using the Borders icon on the toolbar, and using format
cells/boarder .
any ideas why?
Thank you.