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Hello, I've got problems with word and excel since I changed settings in windows xp. I changed the display properties. I picked in appereance tab "high contrast black" color scheme and in advanced options I changed these settings a little bit, so I've got black-gray-white look of windows now. Any window I use the window color is black. the problem is the window (in word it is page color, in excel it is cell color) in excel or word is black also. I would like to change these settings they are default. I can change color settings in word but not as default and in excel I can't change even for one use :) I would like to ask for any advice. Many thanks.