Color palette messed up?

[TXCiclista]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel

I was using the "old" color palette that had each row divided into carious colors with rows being various shades. I had some great light greens and yellows I could use. On a whim, I decided to try "Business checkbook" format from the Elements Gallery ("Sheets > Accounts"). It created a new worksheet inside the document (not what I wanted) so I deleted it. Now my color palette is all messed up. It doesn't have the pretty shade progressions and seems to have random (ugly) colors everywhere. I have no idea what caused it and no idea how to undo it. What's worse, the "Pick a color" option is greyed out too (it was before though).

Any thoughts? I'm spending MORE time with Excel now, not less. This is absurd. Office for Mac = fail.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel

I was using the "old" color palette that had each row divided into carious
colors with rows being various shades. I had some great light greens and
yellows I could use. On a whim, I decided to try "Business checkbook" format
from the Elements Gallery ("Sheets > Accounts"). It created a new
worksheet inside the document (not what I wanted) so I deleted it. Now my
color palette is all messed up. It doesn't have the pretty shade progressions
and seems to have random (ugly) colors everywhere. I have no idea what caused
it and no idea how to undo it. What's worse, the "Pick a color" option is
greyed out too (it was before though).

What caused it is that inserting a Ledger Sheet changes some of the
colors in the workbook's color palette.

Probably not a bug, as it's done by design, but IMO a very undesirable
feature.

Be sure to use Help/Send Feedback on Excel to tell MacBU that this
shouldn't be done.

If you still have another workbook with the great greens and yellows you
can restore them to your book by, with both workbooks open and the
changed workbook selected, choose Preferences/Color, and select the good
book from the "Copy colors from" dropdown.

 

[Todd Aton]

We're testing a fix for this problem. Sorry for changing the color palette
you were expecting to use.

Todd Aton
Macintosh Business Unit
Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft makes no warranties, express, implied or statutory, as to the
information in this post.

 

[TXCiclista]

That's OK. The workaround mentioned worked fine. Glad to know you all are working on it.