Can't color(shade or highlight) any cells...

lipin

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Just got Office XP and in Excel I can't get my background color to work. I go to select a color and it selects but the color on the worksheet stays white. No gray, no highlight, nothing. Is there some setting that needs turned on/off?

Tried Format...cells....Pattern...Shading and no colors work.
Tried clicking the fill color tab on the toolbox and nothing.

Probably easy fix, but I haven't had XP long enough to figure it out.
 

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