I wonder if you're referring to an issue that I've discovered, which affects 4.5 and 5.1 under Windows 7 and Windows 7 - I haven't tried my Unbuntu version yet. I created a file in Excel, filling the background of the whole sheet with a colour. I opened it in LibreOffice, and it looked like this: http://virnuls.co.uk/documents/factorisation.xlsx <http://virnuls.co.uk/documents/factorisation.xlsx> - i.e. some of the cells were not coloured. I then coloured the background of all cells in LibreOffice and saved the file again. Excel shows the background as being all green (other than the boxes for the answers), whereas LibreOffice has additional white areas. Our users have a mixture of versions of Excel and LibreOffice, and I wanted to use the Excel file format because I want to password-protect the sheet (and Calc told me that I can't do that with an ODS file). -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Calc-background-color-in-cells-invisible-tp4176124p4185798.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted