XL98: Patterned Cells Print Solid Black

• Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition

SYMPTOMS

If you print cells with patterned formatting on a black and white printer, the printer prints the cells as solid black instead of patterned.

CAUSE

This problem may occur when the following conditions are true:

• The cells on your worksheet are blue or dark blue.


-and-


• The cells are formatted with patterns.

WORKAROUND

To prevent this problem from occurring, do not color cells blue or dark blue when using patterns. To change the color of a cell to something other than blue or dark blue, follow these steps:

1. Select the cells colored blue.



2. On the Format menu, click Cells, and then click the Patterns tab.



3. Under Color, click another color you would like to use, and then click OK.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition.

REFERENCES

For more information about Formatting Cells, click Contents And Index on the Help menu (or on the Balloon Help menu if you are using a version of the Macintosh operating system earlier than 8.0), click the Index button in Microsoft Excel Help, type the following text

cells, formatting

Additional query words: XL98

Keywords : kbdta xlformat
Version : MACINTOSH:98
Platform : MACINTOSH
Issue type : kbbug