XL97: Black and White Printer Prints Colored Lines as Grayscale (173955)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows
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.
Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:9/7/2001
Keywords:kbprint KB173955
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