Vista - Coloring the cells and text in Excel 7

I have Excel 7 along with Vista. I am having problems in coloring the cells as well as coloring the text in the cell. It was so easy in previous versions of excel. I never had any trouble with this simple function.

Cell/Row Highlight:
But in 7, I don't know what'g wrong when I select the whole row and click on the format color, on selecting any color for the row or cell, it never gets highlighted.
Why this is happening ?

Text Hilight:
When I highlight text in any cell and apply color to it, the hilight color only appears when I click on the text. As get out of the text from that cell, the text goes back to normal color. Why this is happening ?

I am not sure whether I need to change any settings for 7 to do this.. I looked at the help. It simply says select the cells or rows and simply selects the desired color from the Format menu..

I am not sure why microsoft makes things so complicated.. In the older versions, in tools and options, quite a few useful options are there to checks all these settings.. this version is so cumbersome..
Any help please ..???

See if this is helpful. Refer lesson 2.


Microsoft Excel 2007 Tutorial—Free & Online


Please post back & let us know how you go.

Thank you for the link. This is a very useful resource for all the MS office products though it didn't help in my particular case. The tutorial showing the same what I have been doing it since the day 1. It seems there must be some setting that is overriding my color settings..