Any colors that you used for shading or for fonts may change when you open an Excel 2008 for Mac workbook

When you open a Microsoft Excel 2008 for Mac workbook, any colors that you used for shading or for fonts may change. You may be unable to see the information in the workbook because of this change.

This problem occurs after you insert a Ledger worksheet into the workbook. This action causes the color palette to change. Some colors change to black, to white, or to a different shade of the original color.

The following workaround does not permanently resolve this problem. When you save the workbook, the color palette changes again.

To temporarily work around this problem, follow these steps:

1. On the Excel menu, click Preferences.
2. Click the Colors tab.
3. Click Reset, and then click OK.

After you follow these steps, you can make changes, and you can print the workbook with the correct colors.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.