Are you trying to use a modified color from the Excel color palette? In
other words, did you go into ToolsOptionsColor & modifiy one of the colors
found there, then use that color as your font color? That's the only way I
can duplicate your issue.

"Doug" wrote:

I have cells that have colored fonts and colored background. If I copy them
and do a paste special, leaving the paste choice as 'All' the colored fonts
paste as black, but the colored background stays correct. Any ideas.
Discovered this trying to paste a spreadsheet into PowerPoint. I get the
same results pasting into Word, Excel and PowerPoint.