Article ID: 173955
Article Last Modified on 9/7/2001
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition
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.
REFERENCES
For more information about lines, click the index tab in Microsoft Excel Help, type the following text
lines, color
and then double-click the selected text to go to the "lines" topic.
Additional query words: XL97 grey scale gray greyscale
Keywords: kbprint KB173955
