MSOffice 2003 Excel Font and Fill Color Menu box changes

[mstracke]

I have an Excel workbook with several spreadsheets that I have been using for over a year to track equipment orders. All of a sudden after adding more equipment item lines the Font and Fill Color menu in the toolbar have "requenced", they now have what appears to be a random organization and almost all my font and fill colors have changed. The spreadsheet this started happening in is only 425 lines x 30 columns and none of the other spreadsheets in the workbook are much larger and most are smaller.

I can go back to the most recent file before I added the line items and the font and fill menus are standard. As soon as I add the 6th line, this starts again.

I am not using any color macros for cell color or fill, only using the menu to highlight specific cells.

I have Excel2007, but when I open a file with the "reorganized" font and fill menus the colors in the spreadsheet are still "reorganized". I really do not want to start using 2007 right now if I can avoid it.

I can send the file to anyone who wants to see it.

Anyone got an idea what is happening and how to fix it. I plan on having to add several hundred lines in the future.

[mstracke]

I just tried to MSExcel 2007: started with the previous file before the color pallette problem started and added the line items as before in 2003. No problem so far. BUT I really do not want to have to 2007 right now, possible issues with other internal programs that are not validated against 2007 yet, and I'll have unlearn a decade of toolbar and learn the new one.

Its not a "high contrast" issue in control panel, that option is not selected.

Still looking for some idea on what is wrong in 2003.