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MS Office Forum / Excel / New Users / January 2008Strange colours im windows
Whenever excel shows a window to ask me something the text appears as black on gray and the rest of the inside of the window is white. This makes the window look wrong. This only appears in excel 2002 and not in word or powerpoint. If I login as another user of the same computer the problem has disappeared. I've tried reinstalling office and changing the screen. This really puzzles me and I hope someone can hel me with this. Check in Control Panel / Display under your login. Look at Display Properties/Appearance. For some reason they may be different for your login than they are for the other user logins. Tyro > Whenever excel shows a window to ask me something the text appears as > black [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > disappeared. I've tried reinstalling office and changing the screen. This > really puzzles me and I hope someone can hel me with this. I have tried different combinations of styles in the display section of the control panel,even reverting back to windows classic instead of xp-style. Nothing happens. I have reserched some further and found that starting excel in safe mode through Start, Run and typing excel.exe /safe does repair the problem. I hope this narrows it down a bit but it does not solve my problem. > Check in Control Panel / Display under your login. Look at Display > Properties/Appearance. For some reason they may be different for your login [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > disappeared. I've tried reinstalling office and changing the screen. This > > really puzzles me and I hope someone can hel me with this. You said Excel runs fine under other logins. Sounds like a Windows issue with your login. Starting Excel in safe mode, as far as I know, will ignore your login settings. Tyro >I have tried different combinations of styles in the display section of the > control panel,even reverting back to windows classic instead of xp-style. [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >> > This >> > really puzzles me and I hope someone can hel me with this. Thanks Tyro, What makes it more strange then is the fact that the problem only surfaces in Excel, not in word or other office programs, even when i'm logged in as myself. It doesn't solve the problem of course but it really looks like a weird interaction of excel, windows and some settings of my account. I've tried disabling add-ins but that doesn't help either. Strange....... > You said Excel runs fine under other logins. Sounds like a Windows issue > with your login. Starting Excel in safe mode, as far as I know, will ignore [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > >> > This > >> > really puzzles me and I hope someone can hel me with this. |
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