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Hello,

I am using Excel 2003 on XP.

I have a drop down list in column K. Depending on the choices made, I
have applied conditional formatting to columns L, M, N, and O (I want
them to go grey).

To expand on that:
Choice 1 - the corresponding cell in Column N goes grey
Choice 2 - the corresponding cell in Column N goes grey
Choice 3 - the corresponding cells in Columns L, M, N, O go grey.

When I originally created this in the spreadsheet, everything worked
beautifully. The spreadsheet was sent to a user who did not observe any
greying out when making his selection from the drop down list. When he
sent back the completed s/s, no greying was evident despite the
selections made.

When I played around with it, some of the cells tried to go grey but
didn't quite get there. BUT, when I changed focus on my monitor to
another application then moved back to Excel - voila! grey cells!!!!


Any ideas? Has anyone else found a similar issue? Is there a known
problem that I couldn't find when Googling? Is there a way to make it
behave? It's useless sending out a s/s to users who then complain they
don't know how to complete certain information when I have set up the
sheet to let them know to ignore it but they're not seeing the
signals.

Any help would be gratefully received.


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Anyone?

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