gnumeric query

[Duncan <d rose salford ac uk>]

Hi all,

I'm using gnumeric 0.38 (recently installed october gnome) and I'm very
happy with
it... but (there's always a but :)

If I select a row and change the background colour to other-than-white,
the
background colour is set for the whole row. If I then save and re-open
the
sheet, the background colour is set only for the cells that have data in
them.

I guess this is because (or means that) only cells with data in are
stored in the
save file - but it does stop my sheets from looking how I want them to
look.

Is there a way to work around this minor niggle (I can live with it,
it's no biggie)?

    -Duncan