Automatic coloring of table cells

I have a client with the same issue also. clicking to select words or to
place the cursor between letters as well as jus click within the plain area
of a table will hightlight the whole cell, or whole table a dark blue. The
more you click it, the darker it gets, to a point where it just stays.
Clicking does not clear it regularly. It seems to clear randomly. It also
happen when typing, then hitting enter. Its very odd, i've not seen this
before We just installed office 07 for this user. Any help on this would be
great!
Justin

Did you check the display settings in Control Panel?

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"JT" wrote in message
news:F57ACD92-D599-4E59-ACF3-BFE658C195B1@microsoft.com...
>I have a client with the same issue also. clicking to select words or to
> place the cursor between letters as well as jus click within the plain
> area
> of a table will hightlight the whole cell, or whole table a dark blue. The
> more you click it, the darker it gets, to a point where it just stays.
> Clicking does not clear it regularly. It seems to clear randomly. It also
> happen when typing, then hitting enter. Its very odd, i've not seen this
> before We just installed office 07 for this user. Any help on this would
> be
> great!
> Justin

Yes. It's nothing so simplistim. I'm a network engineer so i've dealt with
lots of desktop issues, but this is something I haven't seen before. This
only appears to happen with office 07. I'll have to check some of the other
user to see if I can discern a pattern.... Koja, was this a fresh install of
office 2007 or did you upgrade to 2007 with a previous version already
installed?

Hi Stefan,
Thank you for responding; in response to your question:
It is just a disply problem... the color does not print. You can color the
cell, but the dark blue also finally engulfes that as well and then you
cannot read the type.
I finally bought the book, "Using Word 2007 Special Edition" and tried
everything I could find in resetting and troubleshooting, but still no change.

It seems to be the same problem that JT has also asked about; however, I can
click on another cell and run the page up and down and the blue will go away
until a cell is clicked on again and then all goes dark blue!!

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

> Is this a display issue only or do tables print with the dark blue color?
>
> --
> Stefan Blom
> Microsoft Word MVP
>
>
> "Koja" wrote in message
> news:525C96B5-1428-4418-AE2F-578944F36245@microsoft.com...
> > Please help; whenever I select and/or type into a Word 2007 Table Cell,
> > the
> > entire cell is colored dark blue and I cannot see the cursor or text. This
> > is
> > an incredible annoyance; I cannot find a way to turn the feature/annoyance
> > off. This makes working with tables almost impossible and I use them
> > daily;
> > can someone please help me? Thank you in advance... Koja
>
>
>
>
>

Hi JT,
Yes, not only was it a fresh install, but I also uninstalled Office 2003
before installing Office 2007.

I have also tried saving the file as a 2003, but this does not seem to clear
up the problem. I have tried opening tables saved previously in 2003 and they
also exhibit the problem. I cannot find the cause either and am hoping to
find answers here......

"JT" wrote:

> Yes. It's nothing so simplistim. I'm a network engineer so i've dealt with
> lots of desktop issues, but this is something I haven't seen before. This
> only appears to happen with office 07. I'll have to check some of the other
> user to see if I can discern a pattern.... Koja, was this a fresh install of
> office 2007 or did you upgrade to 2007 with a previous version already
> installed?

I'm trying to play with the settings on my clients PC remotly, so far, to no
avail. Koja, have you tried removing work from office only while leaving the
other programs in. Then rebooting and reinstalling word again? I will have to
wait to try this on monday when i'll be on site. I'm hoping some setting will
or glitch will be reset. Other clients in the office do not seem to exibit
the same behavior, even ones with a similar setup....still trying to figure
out how to fix this....

JT