Excel cells changing the colours automatically !!

[binoykaladi]

I've a peculiar issue in one of my user computers. We have various systems with Windows XP and Office XP (Outlook alone is 2003 version). In one of the PC, some of the excel files are giving problems by changing the colours automatically. Only common thing I could observe in those files are that they've used some basic colour formatting (bold / font & background colour changes etc...). The issues are like white colour background automatically changes to ash colour, some cells change its background colour to yellow and font colour changes to white etc... This is a not a every day problem, but yes, it comes out every now and then. We've changed the system, whereas the issue seems to be continuing even after that. There are other systems, which runs with similar software combinations, whereas the issue is so far seen only in this computer.

[Ace_XL]

This tends to occur when using differing versions of Excel. Later versions of MS Excel have more colour schemes. On opening an Excel file (last saved on a later version) in an earlier version, the new colours are not supported; as a result of which it reverts to basic formatting.

[binoykaladi]

@ Ace_XL - But in this case, this is the file related to a particular department and there are only 3-4 people working on those. All of them are using the same versions (Excel XP/2002) only.