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 [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: SOCKEEL PHILIPPE <[log in to unmask]> | |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.