XL98: Black and White Printer Prints Lines as Grayscale

• Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition

SYMPTOMS

When you print a worksheet that contains a colored line to a black and white printer, the line may be printed as a gray pattern; in earlier versions of Microsoft Excel the line is printed as a black line.

CAUSE

Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition prints colored lines as grayscale lines to distinguish between black lines and colored lines.

WORKAROUND

To work around this behavior, do either of the following:

• Use black lines.


-or-


• Click Black And White in the Page Setup dialog box. To do this, click Page Setup on the File menu and click the Sheet tab. Select the Black And White check box and click OK.

STATUS

This behavior is by design of Microsoft Excel 98.

REFERENCES

For more information about lines, click the index tab in Microsoft Excel Help, type the following text

lines

Additional query words: XL98 grey scale gray greyscale

Keywords : kbprint xldraw
Version : MACINTOSH:98
Platform : MACINTOSH
Issue type : kbprb