Microsoft KB Archive/173955

= XL97: Black and White Printer Prints Colored Lines as Grayscale =

Article ID: 173955

Article Last Modified on 9/7/2001

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q173955





SYMPTOMS
When you print a worksheet that contains a colored line to a black and white printer, the line may be printed as a gray pattern; in earlier versions of Excel the line is printed as a black line.



CAUSE
Excel 97 prints colored lines as grayscale lines to distinguish between black lines and colored lines.



WORKAROUND
To work around this behavior, do either of the following:


 * Use black lines. -or-


 * Click Black And White in the Page Setup dialog box. To do this, click Page Setup on the File menu and click the Sheet tab. Select the Black And White check box and click OK.



STATUS
This behavior is by design of Microsoft Excel 97.

