XL98: Black and White Printer Prints Lines as Grayscale
Article ID: 178680
Article Last Modified on 9/11/2002
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Excel 98 for Macintosh
This article was previously published under Q178680
SYMPTOMS
When you print a worksheet that contains a colored line to a black and
white printer, the line may be printed as a gray pattern; in earlier
versions of Microsoft Excel the line is printed as a black line.
CAUSE
Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition prints colored lines as grayscale
lines to distinguish between black lines and colored lines.
WORKAROUND
To work around this behavior, do either of the following:
- Use black lines.
-or-
- Click Black And White in the Page Setup dialog box. To do this, click
Page Setup on the File menu and click the Sheet tab. Select the Black
And White check box and click OK.
STATUS
This behavior is by design of Microsoft Excel 98.
REFERENCES
For more information about lines, click the index tab in Microsoft Excel
Help, type the following text
and then double-click the selected text to go to the "Add a line" topic.
Additional query words: XL98 grey scale gray greyscale
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