Have you changed your printer setting? I had that problem when the selected printer did not support color. When I installed a driver for a color printer, I could then see color on the screen. Carole Drake Homewood Building Supply 3243 Rippey Road Loomis, CA 95650 caroled@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 916-652-4655 phone 916-652-3860 fax -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ron Daniel Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 4:13 PM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] COLOURS NOT SHOWING IN EXCEL, POWERPOINT AND WORD I am running MS Office XP Pro. This problem seems to have developed recently on my PC: when I highlight a cell in Excel or change the font colour in Word or Powerpoint, the characters still look black on the screen. The only way to see the actual colours is in Print Preview. Is there some setting I need to change in the software or on my PC display? Another query concerns Microsoft Internet Explorer font size. This seems to vary with different sites I visit. Can I set a default size? Even when I reduce the font size using View/Text size, the font is still so large it is impossible to see more than a few characters without scrolling up/down or side to side. All tips and help appreciated. Ron ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu at the top. This will allow you to unsubscribe your email address or change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles If you are using Outlook and you see a lot of unnecessary code in your email messages, read these instructions that explain why and how to fix it: http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc3/v28/greg28.htm ************************************************************* ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu at the top. This will allow you to unsubscribe your email address or change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles If you are using Outlook and you see a lot of unnecessary code in your email messages, read these instructions that explain why and how to fix it: http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc3/v28/greg28.htm *************************************************************