You could use conditional formatting to set the colour if the cell is
blank (eg bright yellow), but once the users have typed something in,
the cell reverts to a non-coloured background.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Oct 13, 2:16*am, Mainer wrote:
i have a form that needs input in some cells and then needs to be printed.. I
would like to color those cells so the user knows which cells they can change
but i dont want the colors to show up when i print the form