font and highlight standard colors

[cada]

My "standard" font color pallet changed to pastel colors. I will go to a
page that I have worked on before and it's different. How do I fix this
problem? It happens intermittently. It doesn't happen through out Excel
2003. I'm baffeled

 

[bj]

the first time you open a file in a session, if it has non standard colors,
it will establish the colors for all of the other files opened in that
session.
One way some peole take care of that is to set up a workbook with all of the
defaults they want and have it be the first book ipened every time they open
Excel
in tools-options-general, you can specify a workbook book to open when you
start.

if yo often get books from different sources, this is a good idea to do.