Excel 2007 : minor compatibility issue excel 2007 to excel 2003

I created a simple spreadsheet in excel 2007 and tried to save it as excel 2003. Received minor compatibility message. When I 'continued' it returned to portrait and lost the footer containing page number. Why does this happen and what can I do about it?

Hi Frank and welcome to the forum.

Searching the net I find
•"Earlier versions of Excel do not support color formatting in header and footer text. The color formatting information will be displayed as plain text in earlier versions of Excel."
on http://blogs.msdn.com/b/excel/archiv...11/694891.aspx

Might this be the problem?

hope this helps.