I recently set up a new CPU and loaded Microsoft XP professional.  Excel
works fine except the fill function does not work.  The color palatte shows
properly but when I highlight a cell and choose a color, none shows
on-screen.  It does print the color.

I have a spreadsheet that I have had sent to me by another user that is 4mb
in size.
I decided that I did not need all the worksheets and formulas and removed
most of them. I now only have two worksheets with no formulas and when saving

when I go to open a file and pull down on the "look in" box at top it stalls
for quite some time.  Also, now takes forever to drive down into different
directories to find files.

When I scale down my worksheet to fit one page wide by x amount tall, the
text in the cells is getting cutoff during printing.  It looks fine on the
screen, but is cutoff when printed.  It's not row height, it's because of the
scaling.  Anybody got any ideas how to fix this?

A spreadsheet that I use regularly has suddenly run wild.  As soon as I open
Excel a blank spreadsheet comes up and starts running down the columns. I
can't get it to stop and nothing on the tool bar works.   I've rebooted but
when I open Excel the same thing happens, the columns ...

Hello all. Sorry for double posting if that's not appropriate, but I didn't
know which group this question was better suited for.
Test System:
I'm Running Office 2003 on WinXP with all the latest updates to both and

I have a file that in one worksheet (call it the data 1) contains line by
line customer level data monthly about 15000 lines and only getting bigger
and then in the other worksheets I have sum if then statements that relate to
the column fields in the main data file (data 1), and ...

Any old or new Excel 2003 workbook I open has this same problem:
Row 7 intermittently fails to display the value of various cells.  At any
given point while working in a sheet, one or several cells in row 7 will not
display the value.  Selecting the cell will show the value in the ...

A spreadsheet I use daily (10 MB) has today opened but the contents won't
display on the screen.  The screen is grey.  Most of the toolbar options are
greyed out.  When I close Excel, it asks me to save the spreadsheet even
though it isn't visible.  

The bars at the begining of excell 2003 not appears like File, Edit, Tools,
Help...
what can I do?

Recently, when I try and bring up Excel it comes with a window that says
'Please wait while Windows configures Micorsoft Office XP Professional with
Front Page".  Sometimes, pressing the cancel button just starts the dialog
all over again and after three attempts of cancelling, ...

Hello, I have read the questions and suggestions regarding my cursor getting
locked on the screen and have tried several of the fixes..
I still am having problems with this and it is quite annoying.
I have disconnected my usb mouse, it is a optical mouse with a wheel..