With AppleWorks 5 on a Power Macintosh G3 (Blue and White) computer, sometimes when you select a cell in a spreadsheet the cell turns black.

After selecingt a cell in a spreadsheet the cell turns black.

Products affected:

• Power Macintosh G3 (Blue and White) computers, running Mac OS 8.5.1 or 8.6
• AppleWorks 5

This redraw behavior can occur when a graphic has been placed in an AppleWorks spreadsheet or if the text color of a cell is set to something other than black. The behavior is most noticeable when the display is set to Thousands of Colors.

This behavior can also be reproduced by selecting a cell, setting the text color to something other than black, then selecting an adjacent cell.

As a workaround, change the display bit depth to 256 or Millions of Colors while working in your spreadsheet document.

This behavior is eliminated in Mac OS 9.