excel 2007 rendering bug?

realBabelfish · 10 Nov 2016 at 11:04

hi guys, recently a few people in the office have had excel start doing odd things.

inserting rows and a number of things seem to mess up the formatting, some text vanishes when you change to bold too. until you scroll down and back up again.

i wonder if an update has messed something up as we havent changed anything otherwise.

not the end of the world up a bit of a pain in the ass

realBabelfish · 14 Nov 2016 at 13:47

bump? any ideas? seems to have changed recently without us doing anything

jpaul · 14 Nov 2016 at 14:18

maybe check graphics drivers updates, if you are on win10 and at the mercy of MS updates (intel HD + any discrete)
this too

HEADRAT · 14 Nov 2016 at 14:40

Your software is nearly 10 years out of date

jpaul · 14 Nov 2016 at 15:22

has anything improved with excel 2016 or the 365 renting program - if it is not broken ... (well maybe it is)

( using 2013 w/ribbon at work, need to relinquish a HUP office 2010 license so was about to re-install an older 2007 for home, so was interested in issues - just concerned by backward compatability )

OCdude · 14 Nov 2016 at 17:04

Not using 2016, but I can safely say that in my case, 2013 is definitely not better than 2007 when it comes to random rendering glitches.

Either that, or my year-end spreadsheet just doesn't look like how I remember!

realBabelfish · 15 Nov 2016 at 11:31

jpaul said:
maybe check graphics drivers updates, if you are on win10 and at the mercy of MS updates (intel HD + any discrete)
this too

done all that, hasnt made any difference. he uses intel and i use radeon anyway (i have an OCUK beast as my work machine

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realBabelfish · 15 Nov 2016 at 11:31

HEADRAT said:
Your software is nearly 10 years out of date

spreadsheets havent changed much though have they?

plus, was all working fine until recently.

Rabtech · 15 Nov 2016 at 18:25

This?: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/2768648

realBabelfish · 17 Nov 2016 at 11:16

Rabtech said:
This?: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/2768648

done all that and still no joy. will keep looking, thanks mate

jpaul · 17 Nov 2016 at 11:40

some interesting ideas here too

including anniversary update causing issues with win 10 w/fix

The new version of Windows 10 anniversary edition is trying something new. They want to auto-manage printers and have none selected as default. So go to your Start, Settings, Devices, Printers, and select one of them as DEFAULT, then the problems in excel are gone. Amazing.

- are you 10 ?

realBabelfish · 17 Nov 2016 at 13:45

jpaul said:
some interesting ideas here too

including anniversary update causing issues with win 10 w/fix

- are you 10 ?

ahhh, now, it did seem to happen around that time come to think of it. i have changed the printers to set defaults again and will report back.

good find though, i did wonder why printers were changing all the time, now i know!