Why is my printer printing white fonts as black?

[Howie]

Hi all. Hope you can help.

I have a sheet which has conditional formatting which sets all
zero values to white fonts.

However, although the sheet effectively shows a blank cell in all
zero cells (or more accurately, white-on-white), my printer
insists on printing these cells in black - as if the font is not
set as white at all.

Any ideas? thanks.


(Excel 2003)


--
Howard Coakley
e-mail... howard<dot}coakleyatcoakley<dot].codotuk
Skype ID: howie10 (get skype from www.skype.com)

[dominicb]

Good evening Howie

You've almost answered your own question here:

"my printer insists on printing these cells in black - as if the font is not set as white at all."

Conditional formatting just makes your cells "look" a different colour to you - to the computer there is no difference. If you manually set your text to white on white, then XL will recognise it as such, but no so with conditional formatting.

Additionally, if you try using a macro to determine the colour of a conditionally formatted cell, it will not return the colour index of the colour that YOU see.

Kind of difficult to explain, but hope that settles it.

HTH

DominicB

[Gord Dibben]

Howie

I'm guessing that File>Page setup>Sheet "black and white" is checked.
Uncheck it.

White is a color and needs to print in color.


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 20:26:48 +0000, Howie
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Hi all. Hope you can help.
>
>I have a sheet which has conditional formatting which sets all
>zero values to white fonts.
>
>However, although the sheet effectively shows a blank cell in all
>zero cells (or more accurately, white-on-white), my printer
>insists on printing these cells in black - as if the font is not
>set as white at all.
>
>Any ideas? thanks.
>
>
>(Excel 2003)