Sheet Tab Lettering Has Become Unreadable

Ross

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May 19, 2003, 11:56:29 AM5/19/03

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I can no longer read the sheet names on the tabs at the bottom of the
screen. First of all the font turned red and now it is so faint that I
cannot read it on a G4 15" screen (it remains readable on a 22" cinema
display screen - in red). Any ideas as to how to turn the lettering
back to black

TH

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May 19, 2003, 1:03:09 PM5/19/03

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I can't answer your questions, but I wanted to reinforce the problem. A few
months ago the same thing happened to me on Excel v.X. The tab characters
were a solid, readable red color. Unfortunately I don't remember the
solution, but it "might" have been upgrading to Service Release 1 of Office
v>X. If you haven't done that, that would be your first step.

Terry

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Jim Gordon

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May 19, 2003, 11:40:04 PM5/19/03

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Hi

I've heard there is no reliable way to reproduce this problem. I noticed
that the sheet tabs took the font color format of row 1 when I selected the
entire row by clicking on the "1" row number then I chose Format > Font from
the menu.

Try selecting row 1 and then change the font color and see if that affects
your sheet tabs. If it does then we have a reproducible set of steps and
can report it. If the sheet tabs are unaffected, then we still have nothing
solid to report.

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Ross

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May 20, 2003, 3:08:06 AM5/20/03

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Thanks for the feedback, but I am already running 10.1.3, so that's
not the solution!

Ross

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May 20, 2003, 9:42:19 AM5/20/03

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I have tried selecting row 1 and changing the font color. No effect.
Keep the suggestions coming!
Ross Reason

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Harvey Waxman

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May 20, 2003, 3:48:17 PM5/20/03

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In article <fc7dfa0c.0305...@posting.google.com>,
t...@bluewin.ch (Ross) wrote:

> I have tried selecting row 1 and changing the font color. No effect.
> Keep the suggestions coming!
> Ross Reason
>
>

Does this happen with a new workbook created immediatley after restarting
Excel? If not you may find that opening the offending woorkbooks will now
display the tabs properly if opened in the same session.

When you quit and reopen the errant files they will return to the bad behavior.
In order for me solve this issue I had to recreate the workbooks by saving as
SYLK and importing to a new workbook.

In my case it was some weird file corruption. It hasn't returned.

Good luck.

Ross

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May 21, 2003, 3:37:42 AM5/21/03

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Brilliant. This has fixed the problem. Thank you.

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