Toni, for whatever it may be worth, if you search the topic "Change the font
in header and footer text" in Excel 2003, it says "You cannot change the
color of header and footer text."
On his Website, Chip Pearson has some VBA code for headers and footers. It's
here:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/headfoot.htm.. Note that while his code
covers changing fonts, font attributes, and font sizes, he makes no
mention -- and this is significant, I think --of changing font colors.
So I suppose the long and the short of it is that it can't be done. That
being so, I think Paul B's suggestion is the way to go.