Excel 2002 blacking out inserted Autoshapes

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Regan Forde

I have a problem with users who are using Windows XP &
Excel 2002 and are opening an Excel 2000 workbook I have
created. There are autoshapes inserted that hold values
(they are positioned around a cell)and are completely
blacked out when opened using Excel 2002 that did not do
this hwne created using Excel 2000.

Can anybody explain? I know one solution in terms of
saving the workbook as a different version of Excel (Excel
1997-2000 & 1995/5.0), but it seems to me that this
shouldn't be happening!

Cheers
 
Problem sounds similar to a problem with cell comments see
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/ccomment.htm

look for "entire comment box turns black" caused by
cell borders, also possibly due to low color resolution of 16 bits.
If solutions on that page don't help try a search of the MS KB.
(I didn't come up with anything on the MS KB myself)
 
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