Increasingly, I use color schemes in Excel models as well. While I am about to switch to Microsoft Office 2010, I find that the majority of my clients (especially the large corporate ones) are still on Office 2003. Buried down in the Excel menus is a feature to set the colors that Excel 2003 users will see when they open files created in Excel 2007.
  1. Click the office button
  2. Go to the bottom and select "Excel options"
  3. Select "save"
  4. Click the "colors" button under "preserve visual appearance of the workbook"

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