ACC: Microsoft Access Report Not Visible in Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel
Article ID: 146061
Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Access 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Access 97 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q146061
Novice: Requires knowledge of the user interface on single-user computers.
SYMPTOMS
When you set the Window Color to black and the Font Color to white in
Control Panel instead of accepting the default white Window Color and black
Font Color, and then you output a Microsoft Access report to Microsoft Word
or Microsoft Excel, the report is not visible. A black window is all that
you see.
CAUSE
Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel have a default setting of black for Font
Color. However, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel do not have a setting
for Window Color; therefore, the window remains set to the setting in
Control Panel.
RESOLUTION
There are several workarounds for this behavior. One is to change the
Control Panel settings so that the Window Color is something other than
black. A second is to highlight all of the text in Microsoft Word (CTRL+A)
or all of the cells in Microsoft Excel (CTRL+A) and change the Font color.
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