Just one possibility, what are the windows colors set to?  If you have a
grey background set in your windows colors, then the excel background will
be grey.  Try setting the windows color settings to default and see if it
helps.

HTH

Mike Buraczewski
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From: SOCKEEL PHILIPPE <[log in to unmask]>
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|Win95a, MS Office97 Small Business Edition, only with Excel97 :
|I can't get anything else but GREY background
|colour in all cells instead of standard white colour I had before with
|older Excel versions.