Border color does not display

[fai.sheng]

I have an Excel sheet which contains a table of projects and a section
of empty cells next to it representing months. I have formatted these
"month" cells with different background colors depending on the status
of the projects. After every data row I have inserted an empty row, so
as to keep the "color codes" apart for each project. This, however,
makes sorting the table rather cumbersome.

I have now eliminated the empty rows and decided to add a white
horizontal border, which would give much the same visual effect as
before. However, even though I can choose to format the border to
white, this is not displayed on the screen (borders remain black) and
when I return to the formatting menu, the color choice is set back to
"automatic". It doesn't work for other colors either, black seems to
be the only "acceptable" border color.

I am running Excel 2004 for Mac (v. 11.3) on a PowerBook G4 under OS X
10.4.9

Any helpful comments would be very much appreciated
Thanks,
Fai

 

[CyberTaz]

My question - based on the specs in your post - would be "11.3.What?" If
you're still at 11.3.0 you're several builds behind in your updates to
Office, so the first step would be to aply the 11.3.5 update, followed by
11.3.6, repair permissions & see if thing improve. If not post back to
explore it further. FWIW, I have no similar problem here... filling cells
with a color & applying a white border of any style works as expected.