Issue with "Web Printing with Microsoft Excel"

Hi All,
I have implemented the "Web Printing with Microsoft Excel". It worked fine. But to get a effect in the background color I have saved the "BWReports_Excel_print.css" as test.css & made some changes to test.css. Then used transaction ICM Monitor(SMICM) to reset the SAP Web Appilication Server Cache. Also provided the respective link for test.css in the web template.
But now the print is not working. Any idea???. I have also reverted back the link to
"BWReports_Excel_print.css" in the web template.
Still no solution.
Need a urgent feedback.
regards
Mahendra

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