Description of the Excel 2007 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: February 15, 2008

List of issues that are fixed

This hotfix fixes the following issues that were not previously documented in a Microsoft Knowledge Base article:

• In Excel 2007, you set the color of a cell to light green, and then you save the workbook in the Excel 97-2003 Workbook (*.xls) or Excel Workbook (*xlsx) file format. However, when you open the file in Microsoft Office Excel 2003, the color of the cell is now yellow.
• You copy a range of cells from Excel 2007, and then you open a Microsoft Office Word 2007 document or a Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 presentation. On the Home tab, in the Clipboard group, you click Paste, and then you click Paste Special. In the Paste As list, you select Picture (Windows Metafile), and then you click OK. A picture of the cells appears. Then you print the document or the presentation to a PostScript printer. However, the picture of the cells prints as a black rectangle.

Hotfix information

A supported hotfix is available from Microsoft. However, this hotfix is intended to correct only the problem that is described in this article. Apply this hotfix only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem. This hotfix might receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next software update that contains this hotfix.

If the hotfix is available for download, there is a "Hotfix download available" section at the top of this Knowledge Base article. If this section does not appear, contact Microsoft Customer Service and Support to obtain the hotfix.

Note If additional issues occur or if any troubleshooting is required, you might have to create a separate service request. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for this specific hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Customer Service and Support telephone numbers or to create a separate service request, visit the following Microsoft Web site: Note The "Hotfix download available" form displays the languages for which the hotfix is available. If you do not see your language, it is because a hotfix is not available for that language.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for installing this hotfix package.

Restart information

You do not have to restart the computer after you apply this hotfix package.

Hotfix replacement information

This hotfix is not replaced by any later hotfix.

Registry information

To use one of the hotfixes in this package, you do not have to make any changes to the registry.

File information

This hotfix may not contain all the files that you must have to fully update a product to the latest build. This hotfix contains only the files that you must have to correct the issues that are listed in this article.

The global version of this hotfix uses a Microsoft Windows Installer package to install the hotfix. The dates and the times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in the following table. When you view the file information, the date is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time item in Control Panel.

Download informationMicrosoft Windows Installer .msp file informationAfter the hotfix is installed, the global version of this hotfix has the file attributes, or a later version of the file attributes, that are listed in the following table:

Excel.msp

Graph.msp

Xlconv.msp