I am very new to Excel, but I know this just isn't right. Whenever I fill a
cell with a color it doesn't show up colored in my workbook sheets. It does
in print preview. I have tried just highlighting and filling a cell wil
color, using conditional formatting and coloring them that way. Nothing
seems to work, my Excel pages stay white.

See if this helps


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=833258
The fill color, the fill pattern, or the line color of a WordArt or
AutoShape
object in an Office document does not change



--
HTH

Bob Phillips

(replace somewhere in email address with gmail if mailing direct)

"lacy" wrote in message
...
I am very new to Excel, but I know this just isn't right. Whenever I fill
a
cell with a color it doesn't show up colored in my workbook sheets. It
does
in print preview. I have tried just highlighting and filling a cell wil
color, using conditional formatting and coloring them that way. Nothing
seems to work, my Excel pages stay white.

Bob, thank you for replying. I don't think it really helped me, though. To
make this as simple as I can: If I choose a cell and sak Excel to fill it
with a background color, the color only shows up if I go to print preview and
look at the page there. In Excel workbook it stays white. Other people have
theirs color in Excel workbook, so there is certainly something that is not
right. I have tried to find any formatting or such that might have the wrong
selections to fix this, but no luck. Any ideas?

"lacy" wrote:

I am very new to Excel, but I know this just isn't right. Whenever I fill a
cell with a color it doesn't show up colored in my workbook sheets. It does
in print preview. I have tried just highlighting and filling a cell wil
color, using conditional formatting and coloring them that way. Nothing
seems to work, my Excel pages stay white.

Have you turned off the High Contrast in Accessibility Options?


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 07:16:02 -0700, lacy wrote:

Bob, thank you for replying. I don't think it really helped me, though. To
make this as simple as I can: If I choose a cell and sak Excel to fill it
with a background color, the color only shows up if I go to print preview and
look at the page there. In Excel workbook it stays white. Other people have
theirs color in Excel workbook, so there is certainly something that is not
right. I have tried to find any formatting or such that might have the wrong
selections to fix this, but no luck. Any ideas?

"lacy" wrote:

I am very new to Excel, but I know this just isn't right. Whenever I fill a
cell with a color it doesn't show up colored in my workbook sheets. It does
in print preview. I have tried just highlighting and filling a cell wil
color, using conditional formatting and coloring them that way. Nothing
seems to work, my Excel pages stay white.

Gord,
That was it. Thank you SO MUCH! I have to use Excel for classes and we
need to use background color and I just coun't find what the problem was.
Again, MANY THANKS!
Lacy

"Gord Dibben" wrote:

Have you turned off the High Contrast in Accessibility Options?


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 07:16:02 -0700, lacy wrote:

Bob, thank you for replying. I don't think it really helped me, though. To
make this as simple as I can: If I choose a cell and sak Excel to fill it
with a background color, the color only shows up if I go to print preview and
look at the page there. In Excel workbook it stays white. Other people have
theirs color in Excel workbook, so there is certainly something that is not
right. I have tried to find any formatting or such that might have the wrong
selections to fix this, but no luck. Any ideas?

"lacy" wrote:

I am very new to Excel, but I know this just isn't right. Whenever I fill a
cell with a color it doesn't show up colored in my workbook sheets. It does
in print preview. I have tried just highlighting and filling a cell wil
color, using conditional formatting and coloring them that way. Nothing
seems to work, my Excel pages stay white.

I believe you should thank Bob also.

His post directed you to the KB Article where the information is found.

Or, perhaps you missed his intent?


Gord


On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:02:02 -0700, lacy wrote:

Gord,
That was it. Thank you SO MUCH! I have to use Excel for classes and we
need to use background color and I just coun't find what the problem was.
Again, MANY THANKS!
Lacy

"Gord Dibben" wrote:

Have you turned off the High Contrast in Accessibility Options?


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 07:16:02 -0700, lacy wrote:

Bob, thank you for replying. I don't think it really helped me, though. To
make this as simple as I can: If I choose a cell and sak Excel to fill it
with a background color, the color only shows up if I go to print preview and
look at the page there. In Excel workbook it stays white. Other people have
theirs color in Excel workbook, so there is certainly something that is not
right. I have tried to find any formatting or such that might have the wrong
selections to fix this, but no luck. Any ideas?

"lacy" wrote:

I am very new to Excel, but I know this just isn't right. Whenever I fill a
cell with a color it doesn't show up colored in my workbook sheets. It does
in print preview. I have tried just highlighting and filling a cell wil
color, using conditional formatting and coloring them that way. Nothing
seems to work, my Excel pages stay white.



Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

Dear Gord: I wish to do the exact opposite of Lacy. I wish to highlight a
field on a form or spreadsheet to cue me to edit it, but when I print the
form I do not want it to print highlighted. I have wanted to do this for
years but never really looked into it. I would also like to do this on
microsoft word documents if possible. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

"Gord Dibben" wrote:

I believe you should thank Bob also.

His post directed you to the KB Article where the information is found.

Or, perhaps you missed his intent?


Gord


On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:02:02 -0700, lacy wrote:

Gord,
That was it. Thank you SO MUCH! I have to use Excel for classes and we
need to use background color and I just coun't find what the problem was.
Again, MANY THANKS!
Lacy

"Gord Dibben" wrote:

Have you turned off the High Contrast in Accessibility Options?


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 07:16:02 -0700, lacy wrote:

Bob, thank you for replying. I don't think it really helped me, though. To
make this as simple as I can: If I choose a cell and sak Excel to fill it
with a background color, the color only shows up if I go to print preview and
look at the page there. In Excel workbook it stays white. Other people have
theirs color in Excel workbook, so there is certainly something that is not
right. I have tried to find any formatting or such that might have the wrong
selections to fix this, but no luck. Any ideas?

"lacy" wrote:

I am very new to Excel, but I know this just isn't right. Whenever I fill a
cell with a color it doesn't show up colored in my workbook sheets. It does
in print preview. I have tried just highlighting and filling a cell wil
color, using conditional formatting and coloring them that way. Nothing
seems to work, my Excel pages stay white.



Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

Print in "Black and White"?


Gord

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:17:00 -0700, Paul wrote:

Dear Gord: I wish to do the exact opposite of Lacy. I wish to highlight a
field on a form or spreadsheet to cue me to edit it, but when I print the
form I do not want it to print highlighted. I have wanted to do this for
years but never really looked into it. I would also like to do this on
microsoft word documents if possible. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

"Gord Dibben" wrote:

I believe you should thank Bob also.

His post directed you to the KB Article where the information is found.

Or, perhaps you missed his intent?


Gord


On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:02:02 -0700, lacy wrote:

Gord,
That was it. Thank you SO MUCH! I have to use Excel for classes and we
need to use background color and I just coun't find what the problem was.
Again, MANY THANKS!
Lacy

"Gord Dibben" wrote:

Have you turned off the High Contrast in Accessibility Options?


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 07:16:02 -0700, lacy wrote:

Bob, thank you for replying. I don't think it really helped me, though. To
make this as simple as I can: If I choose a cell and sak Excel to fill it
with a background color, the color only shows up if I go to print preview and
look at the page there. In Excel workbook it stays white. Other people have
theirs color in Excel workbook, so there is certainly something that is not
right. I have tried to find any formatting or such that might have the wrong
selections to fix this, but no luck. Any ideas?

"lacy" wrote:

I am very new to Excel, but I know this just isn't right. Whenever I fill a
cell with a color it doesn't show up colored in my workbook sheets. It does
in print preview. I have tried just highlighting and filling a cell wil
color, using conditional formatting and coloring them that way. Nothing
seems to work, my Excel pages stay white.



Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP