software

In posting this, I found the answer from Rowan Drummond from the 10/18/2005
posting.

Turning off quot;High Contrastquot; on my Display option did the trick.....so the
monitor settings was the real problem.

Thanksquot;Sue Wizquot; wrote:

gt; I'm newly on XP and EXCEL 2003 from an antique computer and old Microsoft
gt; versions.
gt;
gt; I'm unable to view cell shading on the screen even though the quot;format cells,
gt; patterns, cell shading, colorquot; shows that it should be there.
gt;
gt; It doesn't show for either new spreadsheets or existing ones (which had
gt; shading for my input cells in prior EXCEL versions).
gt;
gt; I've tried everything I can think of.........any suggestions? Is it EXCEL or
gt; XP settings?
gt;